The Kid Who Climbed Everest

The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest

von Bear Grylls

312 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In 1996, a twenty-three-year-old soldier in the British Army was flying over an African desert on a routine parachute jump. He had a lot to look forward to-a long career ahead of him in the army, a beautiful girlfriend back home. But those dreams were cut short when his parachute failed to open at eleven thousand feet. He had cracked three vertebrae and come within a fraction of severing his spinal cord. A grueling eight months of physical therapy followed. Bear had to retrain his muscles to do all of the things we take for granted-how to sit, stand, walk, even breathe. Eighteen months after his accident he overcame incredible odds to reach the peak of Everest. THE KID WHO CLIMBED EVEREST is a tale of courage and determination. Bear's quest for funding for his expedition, his seventy days on Everest's southeast face, and a narrow brush with death after a fall into a crevasse at nineteen thousand feet, make the story an essential read for anyone who's ever had a dream and made it come true.

• Themen: Sport & Freizeit Aktiv im Freien / Outdooraktivitäten Bergsteigen und Klettern
• ISBN: 9781493040957
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2019
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing