Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest - Softcover

Weathers, Beck

 
9780440237082: Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0440237084 ISBN 13: 9780440237082
Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

A survivor of the doomed 1996 Everest expedition recalls his remarkable comeback from being declared dead on the mountain, the daring rescue that brought him home alive, and his subsequent physical and psychological recovery. Reprint.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Beck Weathers has become a much-sought-after speaker before professional, corporate, and academic audiences. He lives with his family in Dallas, where he also practices medicine.

Stephen G. Michaud is the author or co-author of eighteen books, includingLeft for Dead, Conversations With a Killer, Dark Dreams, and The Only Living Witness. He is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.


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tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling quite literally a dead man walking into camp and the shaky start of my return to life....

In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him.

Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared, blinded, gloveless, caked with ice coming down the mountain as a dead man walking.

In this powerful memoir, Weather describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed nine climbers; he describes another journey, a life s journey. This is the story of a man s route to a dangerous sport and a fateful expedition, as well as the road of recovery h

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Verlag
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0440237084
ISBN 13 
9780440237082
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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