num_pages: 364
description: Named one of the Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer by Backpacker MagazineFor readers of Into Thin Air  riveting high-altitude drama and the passion and drive that inspire outsized mountaineering achievements.Master of Thin Air opens with a fall that the author very nearly could not stop down an almost vertical rock ramp leading to a three-thousand-foot drop. The qualities that saved him then on K2in addition to his mountaineering know-how and sheer good luckdrove his sixteen-year journey to summit all of the world's eight-thousanders the fourteen peaks that exceed 8000 meters (26000-plus feet) and take climbers into the death zone. Incredibly he accomplished that feat without the aid of bottled oxygen for every mountain but one. By preference he climbed solo or in small teams without Sherpas. During twenty-three expeditions he spent a total of three years clinging to the sides of dangerous mountains. He lost more than twenty climbing friends and in April 2014 witnessed Everest's deadliest avalanche.His book is a riveting often thrilling account of what it takes to challenge the Earth's highest peaks and survive. It tells of death-defying ascents and even riskier descents the gut-dropping consequences of the smallest mistakes or even just bad luck the camaraderie and human drama of expeditions the exhilaration of altitude. It is also the inspiring story of what motivates a person to achieve an extraordinary dream a story of passion resourcefulness self-motivation and hopeeven in the most dire moments.Skyhorse Publishing as well as our Sports Publishing imprint is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball pro football college football pro and college basketball hockey or soccer we have a book about your sport or your team.In addition to books on popular team sports we also publish books for a wide variety of athletes and sports enthusiasts including books on running cycling horseback riding swimming tennis martial arts golf camping hiking aviation boating and so much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
language: English
title: Master of Thin Air: Life and Death on the World's Highest Peaks
publisher: Arcade