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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780345523198
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345523199
ISBN-13
9780345523198
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99562471
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ledge : an Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), Mountaineering, Sports
Publication Year
2011
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
18 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2011-010515
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
Advance praise for The Ledge "Through spare, vivid, and honest storytelling, The Ledge plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing."--Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute "Few can imagine the terror of falling eighty feet into a bottomless abyss or the horror of losing a climbing partner in the process; even fewer could survive. Jim Davidson not only survives, he lives to tell the tale and to honor his fallen friend."--Jennifer Jordan, author The Last Man on the Mountain and Savage Summit "A deeply personal account of friendship, adventure, and epic tragedy, of struggling for life against the toughest of mountaineering odds imaginable."--Mike Gauthier, author of Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide, Advance praise for The Ledge "Through spare, vivid, and honest storytelling, The Ledge plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing."-Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute "Few can imagine the terror of falling eighty feet into a bottomless abyss or the horror of losing a climbing partner in the process; even fewer could survive. Jim Davidson not only survives, he lives to tell the tale and to honor his fallen friend."-Jennifer Jordan, author The Last Man on the Mountain and Savage Summit "A deeply personal account of friendship, adventure, and epic tragedy, of struggling for life against the toughest of mountaineering odds imaginable."-Mike Gauthier, author of Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide, Advanced Praise for The Ledge " Few can imagine the terror of falling 80 feet into a bottomless abyss or the horror of losing a climbing partner in the process; even fewer could survive. Davidson not only survives, he lives to tell the tale and to honor his fallen friend. The Ledge is a stark and poignant reminder to all of us that climbing is a perilous passion. " -- Jennifer Jordan, author The Last Man on the Mountain and Savage Summit, Advance praise for The Ledge "Through spare, vivid, and honest storytelling, The Ledge plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing."-Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute "Few can imagine the terror of falling eighty feet into a bottomless abyss or the horror of losing a climbing partner in the process; even fewer could survive. Jim Davidson not only survives, he lives to tell the tale and to honor his fallen friend."-Jennifer Jordan, author The Last Man on the Mountain and Savage Summit "Adeeply personal account of friendship, adventure, and epic tragedy, of struggling for life against the toughest of mountaineering odds imaginable."-Mike Gauthier, author of Mount Rainier: A Climbing Guide From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
796.52/209797782
Synopsis
On June 21, 1992, Davidson and his best friend, Mike Price, summited Mount Rainier and on their descent tragedy struck. Tied together, the two men fell 80 feet into a crevasse, with Price dying instantly. Now Davidson shares his incredible story of survival and renewal. Photos., "My eyes travel up the frozen walls. I figure it is eighty feet up to the sunlight. The walls above me climb up at about eighty degrees, then they go dead vertical, and then, higher up, they overhang. It is as if I am looking out from the belly of a beast, its jagged white teeth interlocking above me." In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood triumphantly atop Washington's Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate young mountaineers. Instead, their conquest gave way to catastrophe when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse--the pitch-black, ice-walled hell that every climber's nightmares are made of. An avid adventurer from an early age, Davidson was already a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent, fully aware of the risks and hopelessly in love with the challenge. But in the blur of a harrowing free fall, he suddenly found himself challenged by nature's grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow, unstable frozen ledge, deep below daylight and high above a yawning chasm, he would desperately battle crumbling ice and snow that threatened to bury him alive, while struggling in vain to save his fatally injured companion. And finally, with little equipment, no partner, and rapidly dwindling hope, he would have to make a fateful choice--between the certainty of a slow, lonely death or the seeming impossibility of climbing for his life. At once a heart-stopping adventure story, a heartfelt memoir of friendship, and a stirring meditation on fleeting mortality and immutable nature, The Ledge chronicles one man's transforming odyssey from the dizzying heights of elation and awe to the punishing depths of grief and hard-won wisdom. This book's visceral, lyrical prose sings the praises of the physical world's wonders, while searching the souls of those willing, for better or worse, to fully embrace it.
LC Classification Number
GV199.42.W22D38 2011
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