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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
A tense page-turner that will appeal to readers who love true life adventures and stories of survival. Fans of Krakauer will eat this up.
This is a tale of persevering and achieving ones goals no matter how unlikely they seem.
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This is the personal account of Jim Davidson's experiences as a mountain climber. Davidson was climbing Mount Everest with his team on April 25, 2015 when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit Nepal. This earthquake and aftershocks caused several avalanches on the snowy mountain, cutting off the exit path for the climbers. Davidson and his team were stuck 20,000 feet above sea level in the snow for two days. This book details his experiences of that day, as well as how he worked through his fear and uncertainty about climbing again. He eventually returned to complete his adventure, which is more than I could have managed.
I remember this earthquake very well. The devastation it caused in Nepal was tremendous, with extremely old structures crumbling like dust. This earthquake killed almost 9,000 people and injured many more. Eighteen people who were also on Mount Everest that day wound up being included in the death toll. Mountain climbing is not something that interests me in particular, but I do enjoy a good natural disaster book. I thought this book was well written, and clearly described the events and feelings of that day. Obviously, historical facts were included, which I appreciated. If you are interested in that particular earthquake, mountain climbing, or are just a morbid person like I am, this may be a good book for you. I have had this one for a while, and I wish that I wouldn't have waited so long to read it.
I remember this earthquake very well. The devastation it caused in Nepal was tremendous, with extremely old structures crumbling like dust. This earthquake killed almost 9,000 people and injured many more. Eighteen people who were also on Mount Everest that day wound up being included in the death toll. Mountain climbing is not something that interests me in particular, but I do enjoy a good natural disaster book. I thought this book was well written, and clearly described the events and feelings of that day. Obviously, historical facts were included, which I appreciated. If you are interested in that particular earthquake, mountain climbing, or are just a morbid person like I am, this may be a good book for you. I have had this one for a while, and I wish that I wouldn't have waited so long to read it.
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I liked this book a lot. It was really interesting and I liked that it was told by someone who was actually there. The author explains a lot about how the Everest climber culture works and was very detailed in what took place on the mountain. There were a couple of things I didn't like. I was completely turned of with his obsession with updating the media everyday. He spends about a thousand dollars using a sat phone to call CNN, the Weather Channel and NBC, plus dozens of other news outlets to give them the latest information. He seems more interested in being a celeb than in spending that time helping out the Nepali people after the quake. I also didn't like that there is a section in the middle that seems pointless and is just him debating about whether or not he was going to attempt the climb again. Something also rubbed be the wrong way about his constant need to point out how much money he gives people in Nepal. Overall it was a decent book but needed some changes.