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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
medium-paced
Maybe 2.5 if I’m feeling charitable, just because the last 100ish pages were decent enough. It was least 150 pages too long though and in places so self-important that it was almost unbearable to read
Drags in some places and pretty insightful in others.
adventurous
informative
reflective
medium-paced
adventurous
hopeful
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inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
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adventurous
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hopeful
inspiring
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medium-paced
I appreciated Davidson's insights as a geologist and generally upbeat perspective. More than anything, though, I respect that he took every opportunity to direct attention to the needs of Nepal following the 2015 earthquake.
adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
This is a tale of persevering and achieving ones goals no matter how unlikely they seem.
I listened to this as an audiobook. I don’t listen to audiobooks frequently because my mind tends to wander, but The Next Everest was engaging and easy to follow. In fact, I would recommend this format for this and perhaps other adventure stories. It was easy to feel like you had strapped on crampons and were climbing into the death zone clipped into the fixed ropes just behind him.
For a decades-long armchair mountain climber, that effect was only enhanced by his mentions of friend and fellow climber, Alan Arnette who blog and social media I have followed for many years, and Russell Brice, mountaineer and expedition leader whose Everest series I enjoyed on The Discovery Channel.
The author was a lifelong climber who had not yet added Everest to his summit list. He was turned back in his 2015 attempt when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake left him stranded high on the mountain. The earthquake and the ensuing aftershocks killed nearly 9,000 people in Nepal, eighteen of them on Everest. Davidson and his team were eventually rescued by helicopter. He didn’t think he’d get another summit attempt but was able to return in 2017.
I recommend the book for fans of adventure, mountaineering, or just good storytelling.
I received this Advanced Reader Copy of The Next Everest from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
I recommend the book for fans of adventure, mountaineering, or just good storytelling.
For a decades-long armchair mountain climber, that effect was only enhanced by his mentions of friend and fellow climber, Alan Arnette who blog and social media I have followed for many years, and Russell Brice, mountaineer and expedition leader whose Everest series I enjoyed on The Discovery Channel.
The author was a lifelong climber who had not yet added Everest to his summit list. He was turned back in his 2015 attempt when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake left him stranded high on the mountain. The earthquake and the ensuing aftershocks killed nearly 9,000 people in Nepal, eighteen of them on Everest. Davidson and his team were eventually rescued by helicopter. He didn’t think he’d get another summit attempt but was able to return in 2017.
I recommend the book for fans of adventure, mountaineering, or just good storytelling.
I received this Advanced Reader Copy of The Next Everest from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
I recommend the book for fans of adventure, mountaineering, or just good storytelling.