num_pages: 8
description: For every six mountaineers who make it to the top of Mount Everest, one will die. These victims remain frozen in the world above 26,000 ft. -- chillingly known among climbers as "the Death Zone". Bear Grylls is the youngest British climber to reach the summit and return alive -- a feat made all the more remarkable by the fact that only two years earlier he broke his back in a parachuting accident. Bear endured over seventy days on Everest's southeast face -- and only narrowly avoided death when he fell into a crevasse at 19,000 ft. -- to stand on top of the world's highest mountain.
language: English
title: Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
titlecomplete: Facing Up: A Remarkable Journey to the Summit of Mount Everest
genres: Memoir, Mountaineering, Biography, Autobiography, Travel, Climbing, Nonfiction, Adventure
ratings_count: 1329
publisher: Chivers Audio Books