High exposure
Subtitle: an enduring passion for Everest and unforgiving places
By: David Breashears
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780684865454
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Cinematographers; Mountaineers; Biography
Description: For generations of resolute adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary to Jon Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's other greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But the question remains: Why climb? In High Exposure, elite mountaineer and acclaimed Everest filmmaker David Breashears answers with an intimate and captivating look at his life. For Breashears, climbing has never been a question of risk taking: Rather, it is the pursuit of excellence and a quest for self-knowledge. Danger comes, he argues, when ambition blinds reason. The stories this world-class climber and great adventurer tells will surprise you -- from discussions of competitiveness on the heights to a frank description of the 1996 Everest tragedy.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword/Jon Krakauer; title: Prologue; title: Kid; title: Perilous journey; title: Worm; title: Camera obscura; title: Himalayas; title: Everest; title: Brotherhood of the rope; title: Strange winds; title: Cliffhanger; title: Imax; title: Crucible; title: Redemption; title: Epilogue; title: Acknowledgments; title: Photo Credits; title: Index.