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Everest, Inc.

The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

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Everest, Inc.

Yazan: Will Cockrell
Seslendiren: Pete Simonelli
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Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author).

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 a sense of what the world’s highest mountain is like. It’s an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can kill; an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination; and a place where the rich exploit local Sherpas while padding their egos—and social media feeds.

There’s some truth to these clichés, but they’re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. is the definitive account of how a few daring entrepreneurs paired raw courage and naked ambition to get paying clients safely up and down Everest. Until the late eighties, such a thing was considered impossible. Within a few years, Everest guiding was a burgeoning industry. Today, ninety percent of the people on the mountain are clients or employees of guided expeditions.

Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred Western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, and filmmakers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—Everest, Inc. foregrounds the colorful voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. As professional climber and author Freddie Wilkinson says, “Whether you are thinking about taking a crack at the world’s highest peak or are simply an armchair mountaineer trying to make sense of the complex dynamics driving the modern Everest industry, Everest, Inc. should be required reading.” Adventure Travel Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Expeditions & Discoveries World İyi Hissettiren
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"Pete Simonelli’s performance is perfect. His voice is slightly gruff yet eminently likable, and he has just the right combination of enthusiasm and notes of wry amusement."
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A new take on Everest, neither demonising nor lauding the guiding industry, but exploring how and why it evolved. Engagingly written and performed. The only criticism relates to a few slips in relation to George Mallory and the early history of Everest, this is a shame but not the main focus of the narrative, as the 1920s expeditions long predate the guiding industry. Overall the book has enough fresh takes to hold the attention of people with a long standing interest, but is accessible even if it is the first book on Everest that you have read.

Fresh angle on Everest

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Really enjoyed listening to how the mountaineering industry became what it is today. Helps put things into perspective and see how far it has come. It isn’t all negativity like you see on the news. Would recommend a listen if you’re interested in Everests history

Informative and interesting

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Good listen, learnt a lot about contemporary guiding on Everest and how Sherpa led climbs are now leading the way

Interesting description of changes of Everest guiding

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It's not terrible, but considering the subject matter its not really interesting, entertaining or thought-provoking either.

mergh

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What could've been an interesting story completely ruined by the sadly all too typical boomer postmodern liberal moralising.

They just can't help themselves.

Boomer Slop

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