High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
David Breashears, "High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places"
ISBN: 0684853612, 0684865459 | 2000 | EPUB | 320 pages | 3 MB
For generations of adventurers, from Mallory to Hilary, Norgay to Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But as the public's fascination with mountaineering reaches an all time high, the question remains - why climb? In High Exposure, legendary rock climber, mountaineer and film-maker David Breashears answers with a captivating and intimate look at his life, during which he has scaled many of the world's highest peaks, including two successful ascents of Everest.
For Breashears, climbing has never been a question of risk taking: Rather, it is the pursuit of excellence and a quest for self-knowledge. Danger comes, he argues, when ambition blinds reason. The stories this world-class climber and great adventurer tells will surprise you – from discussions of competitiveness on the heights to a frank description of the 1996 Everest tragedy.