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Named one of the Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer” by __Backpacker Magazine__**For readers of __Into Thin Air__, riveting high-altitude drama and the passion and drive that inspire outsized mountaineering achievements.**__Master of Thin Air__ opens with a fall that the author very nearly could not stop down an almost vertical rock ramp leading to a three-thousand-foot drop. The qualities that saved him then on K2in addition to his mountaineering know-how and sheer good luckdrove his sixteen-year journey to summit all of the world's eight-thousanders, the fourteen peaks that exceed 8,000 meters (26,000-plus feet) and take climbers into the death zone. Incredibly, he accomplished that feat without the aid of bottled oxygen for every mountain but one. By preference, he climbed solo or in small teams, without Sherpas. During twenty-three expeditions, he spent a total of three years clinging to the sides of dangerous mountains. He lost more than twenty climbing friends and, in April 2014, witnessed Everest's deadliest avalanche.His book is a riveting, often thrilling account of what it takes to challenge the Earth's highest peaks and survive. It tells of death-defyin

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Author

Lock, Andrew; Hillary, Peter

Publisher

Arcade Publishing

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781628726169

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Biography

Rating

3.92 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14