Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

by Will Cockrell

“Anyone who reads my blog will find generous acknowledgment that I went on guided

Mark Horrell is another good-natured and self-deprecating former Everest client who provides more evidence that not everyone who wants to climb the mountain is a clueless, arrogant person. “I’m not a climber, but I was able to get up Everest—because it’s not really a climb,” says Horrell, who, through his own blog, has become a sort of British Alan Arnette.

If there were no Sherpas working, there was no Everest industry. Period.

In November 2021, Nims’s autobiography, Beyond Possible, was published in the United Kingdom and was a bestseller.

That same month, a documentary made from the footage he and his team had shot during Project Possible, called 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible, was released on Netflix.

maybe not for everybody—not even possible for many—but surprisingly accessible for hundreds of men and women around the world who simply enjoy biting off something huge and chewing until it’s been swallowed.