| High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places Contributor(s): Breashears, David (Author), Krakauer, Jon (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0684865459 ISBN-13: 9780684865454 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2000 Annotation: In an absorbing memoir that goes beyond the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, world-renowned adventurer and mountain climber Breashears details his career climbing and filming the world's most beautiful and dangerous peaks. of full-color photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Sports - Sports & Recreation | Mountaineering - Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99031159 |
| Lexile Measure: 1040 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (0.85 lbs) 320 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 45544 Reading Level: 7.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 18.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 |