David Breashears
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
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1999
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Everest: Mountain without Mercy
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7 editions
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1997
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Last Climb: The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory
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6 editions
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1999
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Himalayan Quest: Ed Viesturs on the 8,000-Meter Giants
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3 editions
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2003
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Everest: The Death Zone
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1998
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Tragedy on Everest: The Inside Story of the Into Thin Air Disaster
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2013
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High Exposure
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Surviving Everest: Tragedy and Triumph on the World's Deadliest Mountain
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Vittorio Sella and Wilfred Thesiger: Photographs at the Edge
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Everest [DVD]
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“The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.”
― High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
― High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
“The risk inherent in climbing such mountains carries its own reward, deep and abiding, because it provides as profound a sense of self-knowledge as anything else on earth. A mountain is perilous, true; but it is also redemptive. Maybe I had dimly understood this when, as a rootless boy, with no earthly place to call my own, I deliberately chose the iconoclast's rocky path of mountain climbing. But in this moment of pure clarity I realized that ascending Everest had been, for me, both a personal declaration of liberty and a defiant act of escape. Now, suddenly, I felt an inexpressible serenity, a full-blooded reaffirmation of life, on Everest's icy ridges. At last, I was ready to descend the mountain and go home.”
― High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
― High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places
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