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"Goran Kropp, the remarkable Swedish solo climber, loves to do what others label "impossible." His goal was to reach and climb Mount Everest using his own physical means and without any outside assistance. In doing so, he would earn a place in the record books with the most self-contained combined approach and climb of Mount Everest ever accomplished.". "Kropp's Everest quest began 7,000 miles away, in Stockholm, where, at age twenty-nine, he set out by bicycle for Kathmandu, towing behind him nearly everything he'd need to live for a year. In this riveting first-person narrative, Kropp puts his own unique spin on the concept of adventure as he recounts his four-month trek across Europe and Asia, during which he was robbed, assaulted with a baseball bat, almost shot in Turkey, and nearly stoned in Iran. When he left the staging ground in Kathmandu in April 1996, he became the first ever to carry his equipment - all 143 pounds - up 17,100 feet to Everest Base Camp.". "Kropp's first attempt at scaling Everest unassisted ended in frustration when he was forced to turn back only 350 feet - one hour - from the summit, his strength drained, his morale crushed. Despite this setback, and i

Who reads Ultimate high : my Everest odyssey?

Author

Kropp, Göran; Lagercrantz, David

Publisher

Discovery Books

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781563319365

Category

travel

Subjects

Anthropology, Memoir, Travel

Rating

3.95 / 5 (298 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13