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The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
Jim Davidson
3.87 AVERAGE
65 reviews for:
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
Jim Davidson
3.87 AVERAGE
DNF. Like the narrator of the audiobook. Would have loved to learn more about the adventure. Could not endure the detailed description of doing media interviews.
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I’ve read quite a few Everest books, both fiction and non-fiction. This book reminds me of Into Thin Air and tells, IMO, an exciting and humbling tale of climbing Everest. It shows a true testament to patience and perseverance.
Enjoyed this one while running in the snow and ice the last week
I've read a few Everest books, with the intent of understanding why someone would risk their lives doing something so utterly foolish. This is not the best of them, there are multiple timelines and the plot scatters without meaning or purpose. Some parts were quite interesting, such as Everest NOT being covered in garbage and poop, ha ha!
*Thanks to St. Martin's Press + NetGalley for the ARC!*
After reading Into Thin Air, I've been down the rabbit hole on Everest stories and I was certain I couldn't miss Jim Davidson's retelling of his time on the mountain during the earthquake (and subsequent decision to attempt the climb again!). The details in this book are phenomenal - you absolutely feel like you're there, alongside them as they're on the mountain - and I loved that while we get the technical climbing side of things, there's a larger message of taking on challenges in your daily life, too. Must read if you like adventure books!
After reading Into Thin Air, I've been down the rabbit hole on Everest stories and I was certain I couldn't miss Jim Davidson's retelling of his time on the mountain during the earthquake (and subsequent decision to attempt the climb again!). The details in this book are phenomenal - you absolutely feel like you're there, alongside them as they're on the mountain - and I loved that while we get the technical climbing side of things, there's a larger message of taking on challenges in your daily life, too. Must read if you like adventure books!
Sigh. Well this guy was at least somewhat less irritating than the last MUST-fulfill-my-life-long-dream-to-climb-Mt-Everest-all-else-be-damned guy's book I read. This one had the added horror of his descriptions of being trapped at Camp 1 during the 2015 earthquake (not too long ago there were no helicopter rescues that high up, he would have been toast) and the subsequent devastation and death they returned to. What fun, you say, well sure, everything about Everest is fun, from the frozen poop to the frozen dead bodies. Climbing Mt Everest is a miserable, horrible experience, but for some completely unfathomable-to-me reason, they gotta do it or die trying (and many do). Just don't tell him about the crazy Norwegian I saw in a documentary saying that climbing Mt Everest is fine if you "want a story for the birthday party, a REAL mountaineer climbs K2". Shhh!
4.5 stars! I learned a ton! The description of the mountain was very helpful in trying to visualize the climb. The writing was 4 stars and the story was 5.