High Exposure

Description

For generations of resolute adventurers, from George Mallory to Sir Edmund Hillary to Jon Krakauer, Mount Everest and the world's other greatest peaks have provided the ultimate testing ground. But the question remains: Why climb? In High Exposure, elite mountaineer and acclaimed Everest filmmaker David Breashears answers with an intimate and captivating look at his life. For Breashears, climbing has never been a question of risk taking: Rather, it is the pursuit of excellence and a quest for self-knowledge. Danger comes, he argues, when ambition blinds reason. The stories this world-class climber and great adventurer tells will surprise you -- from discussions of competitiveness on the heights to a frank description of the 1996 Everest tragedy.

First Sentence

From the moment I first saw the picture of Tenzing Norgay, I've felt the tug of Everest.

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Other Editions

• High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving PlacesPaperbackCanongate Pub Ltd2000-07-01
• High ExposureAudio CassetteAudio Literature1999-05-01
• High ExposureTandem Library1999-09-01
• High ExposureHardcoverCanongate Books Ltd1999-12-01
• High exposureSimon & Schuster2000-01-01
• High ExposureTurtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media2000-05-01