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The Will to Climb - Hardcover

    The Will to Climb - Hardcover

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    The Will to Climb recounts Ed Viesturs' 2 failed attempts and subsequent 2005 sucessful ascent of Annapurna, and it offers a historical narrative of previous attempts by other mountaineers.

    • Author Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
    • Hardcover; 281 pages; short section of color photographs
    • Crown Publishers; copyright 2011

    The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his 3 attempts to climb the world's 10th highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made—or attempted—the ascent, and what these exploits teach us about facing life's greatest challenges.

    As a high school student in the flatlands of Rockford, Illinois, where the highest objects on the horizon were water towers, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog's famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world's 14 highest peaks in the late 1980s, Viesturs looked forward with trepidation to undertaking Annapurna himself. Two failures to summit in 2000 and 2002 made Annapurna his nemesis. His successful 2005 ascent was the triumphant capstone of his climbing quest. In The Will To Climb Viesturs brings the extraordinary challenges of Annapurna to vivid life through edge-of-your-seat accounts of the greatest climbs in the mountain’s history, and of his own failed attempts and eventual success. In the process he ponders what Annapurna reveals about some of our most fundamental moral and spiritual questions—questions, he believes, that we need to answer to lead our lives well.

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