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The Mountain

My Time on Everest

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In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring.

The highest mountain on earth, Everest remains the ultimate goal for serious high-altitude climbers. Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest, spending more than two years of his life on the mountain and reaching the summit seven times. No climber today is better poised to survey Everest's various ascents—both personal and historic. Viesturs sheds light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924 disappearance just 800 feet from the summit remains one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries, as well as the multiply tragic last days of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer in 1996, the stuff of which Into Thin Air was made.

Informed by the experience of one who has truly been there, The Mountain affords a rare glimpse into that place on earth where Heraclitus's maxim—"Character is destiny"—is proved time and again.

©2013 Ed Viesturs and David Roberts (P)2023 Tantor Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Climbing & Mountaineering Outdoors & Nature Adventure Extreme Sports Sports
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Title says it really... Book is interesting, if not a little repetitive but the narrator! Not only are many of the accents he choose to do borderline offensive, he simple cannot do many of them! He employes the same accent for people from different areas of a country (imagine doing a strong New York accent for someone from Texas and you get the idea). The attempts at accents are really jarring and it was painful every time. Please stop accents in non fiction!!

Attempted accents ruin the book

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it's up to Viesturs' usual high standard, but I cannot understand why the narrator decided to attempt poorly imitating the regional accents of the various people quoted.

Great book, some odd narration choices

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Not his time on Everest, some of it was his already well documented memoirs but most was padding about more famous climbers. Add in the narrators apalling English, French, Tyrolean and Scottish accents (not sure where he thought Whillans was from) and the whole thing sounds like a bad joke. This leaves the listener feeling that it was a rip off production for financial gain relying on other peoples stories. There is better out there save yourself and a credit while you can!

Totally Misleading

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