Description:Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography category)Winner of the 2021 Zia Book AwardWinner of the 2021 NMWP Communications Contest (history/biography)Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpas. Dave and his team--Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorjee, assistant guide JJ Justman, base-camp manager Mark Tucker, and the eight clients who had trained for the privilege to attempt to summit with Dave Hahn--spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on the morning of April 25, 2015. Shook tells their story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day. To get started finding Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
257
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Release
—
ISBN
0826361951
Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day
Description: Winner of the 2021 National Outdoor Book Award (History/Biography category)Winner of the 2021 Zia Book AwardWinner of the 2021 NMWP Communications Contest (history/biography)Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpas. Dave and his team--Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorjee, assistant guide JJ Justman, base-camp manager Mark Tucker, and the eight clients who had trained for the privilege to attempt to summit with Dave Hahn--spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on the morning of April 25, 2015. Shook tells their story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day. To get started finding Shook: An Earthquake, a Legendary Mountain Guide, and Everest's Deadliest Day, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.