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No shortcuts to the top : climbing the world's 14 highest peaks

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  • Running Time: 12:40 hrs
    Narrator: Stephen Hoye
    Publisher:
    Random House Audio, 2006
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.
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    Running Time: 12:40 hrs
    Narrator: Stephen Hoye
    Publisher:
    BC Libraries Cooperative, 2024
    Note: This book was produced with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Viesturs, Ed.
    Contributor: Hoye, Stephen
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2006
    Summary:

    A breathtaking audiobook by the first American to climb the fourteen highest mountains in the world. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But "No shortcuts to the top" is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest, Viesturs has an unyielding motto, "Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory."

    Genre:
    Sports and recreation, Biographies and autobiographies
    Subject(s): Mountaineering | Mountaineers | Viesturs, Ed
    Original Publisher: New York, Random House Audio
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780739349328