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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life.... Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives... for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington's Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse—the pitch-black, ice-walled hell of every climber's nightmares. An avid adventurer since youth, Davidson was a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent. But the harrowing free fall left him challenged by nature's grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow frozen shelf, deep below daylight, he desperately battled crumbling ice, snow that threatened to bury him alive, and crippling fear of the inescapable chasm below—all the while struggling to save his fatally injured friend. Finally, alone, with little equipment and rapidly dwindling hope, he confronted a fateful choice: the certainty of

Author
Jim Davidson; Kevin Vaughan
Publisher
New York: Ballantine Books
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780345523211
Subjects
Sports, Memoir, Adventure
Rating
3.82 / 5 (946 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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