Cockrell Will
Cockrell Will - Everest Inc. The Renegades And Rogues Who Built An Industry At The Top Of The World - Hardcover
Cockrell Will - Everest Inc. The Renegades And Rogues Who Built An Industry At The Top Of The World - Hardcover
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Description: Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have the mountain pretty well figured out. It's an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can occasionally kill but more so an overcrowded trashed - out recreation destination where rich clients pad their egos and social media feeds while exploiting local Sherpas. There's some truth to these clich's but they re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date Everest Inc. gets to the heart of the mountain through the definitive story of its greatest invention: the Himalayan guiding industry. It all began in the 1980s with a few boot - strapping entrepreneurs who paired raw courage and naked ambition with a new style of expedition planning. Many of them are still living and climbing today and as a result of their astonishing success ninety percent of the people now on Everest are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred western and Sherpa climbers clients writers filmmakers and even a Hollywood actor Everest Inc. foregrounds the voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. And while there is plenty of high - altitude drama in unpacking the last forty years of Everest tragedy and triumph it ultimately transcends stereotypes and tells the uplifting counternarrative of the army of journeymen and women who have made people's dreams come true and of the Nepalis who are pushing the industry into the future.
Title: Everest Inc. The Renegades And Rogues Who Built An Industry At The Top Of The World
Author(s): Cockrell Will
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982190453
Pages: 352 Pages, 16-Pg 4-C Insert
Publication Date: 4/16/2024
Category: Memoirs
Description: Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on Mount Everest. Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have the mountain pretty well figured out. It's an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can occasionally kill but more so an overcrowded trashed - out recreation destination where rich clients pad their egos and social media feeds while exploiting local Sherpas. There's some truth to these clich's but they re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date Everest Inc. gets to the heart of the mountain through the definitive story of its greatest invention: the Himalayan guiding industry. It all began in the 1980s with a few boot - strapping entrepreneurs who paired raw courage and naked ambition with a new style of expedition planning. Many of them are still living and climbing today and as a result of their astonishing success ninety percent of the people now on Everest are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred western and Sherpa climbers clients writers filmmakers and even a Hollywood actor Everest Inc. foregrounds the voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. And while there is plenty of high - altitude drama in unpacking the last forty years of Everest tragedy and triumph it ultimately transcends stereotypes and tells the uplifting counternarrative of the army of journeymen and women who have made people's dreams come true and of the Nepalis who are pushing the industry into the future.
Title: Everest Inc. The Renegades And Rogues Who Built An Industry At The Top Of The World
Author(s): Cockrell Will
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982190453
Pages: 352 Pages, 16-Pg 4-C Insert
Publication Date: 4/16/2024
Category: Memoirs
