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Climbing Everest: A Meditation on Mountaineering and the Spirit of Adventur
Pat Ament
Inbunden. International Marine Publishing 2000-09.
ISBN 9780071364454
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Publisher description
This book is what happens when a great climber who is also a philosopher and fine writer focuses on why people climb Everest and what they find up there. The reader becomes a member of a climbing expedition that has just summited and is struggling back down. The musings and observations of an exhausted but euphoric emotional state are rendered so effectively that the book is hard to put down. At the same time, Climbing Everest is an introduction to the entire history and literature of mountaineering, a terrain as familiar to Ament as the cliffs of Colorado.
David Breashears, who filmed the Everest Imax movie, says that "Ament's years of reflection and meditation on why we climb and what we gain from our efforts, and the risks we take, are finally, and with great insight, brought to focus on the Everest experience." Royal Robbins, America's most famous climber, calls it "a poetic spoof, metaphysical romp, and volcano of intriguing reflection on personalities and events in the international mountaineering scene."
"Defiintely one of the best things I've read about Everest. Great work...Very philosophical, thought provoking, and almost mystical." - Gary Neptune, Everest & Himalaya veteran.
"Poetic spoof, metaphysical romp, and volcano of intriguing reflection." - Royal Robbins, legnedary rock climber.
"To your mountaineering library now add a title sure to be the most original work on your shelves, by an origianl himself. Expert climber from his earliest teens, Pat Ament has mellowed: from fearless young Turk and maverick to poet-philospher. At our house his every book has long been admired, but this - his latest and best surprise - reveals new elevation anddepth." - Reg Saner, award-winning author and poet.
"This beautiful book is Pat Ament's best work to date. His poetic descriptions of Everest...leave an indelible imprint in the mind...I am given a glimpse of something unknowable ultimately, that is concealed in the swirling snows and icy bastions of Everest...This is a marvelous book. I love it. Everest is truly a metaphor for life." - John Gill, bouldering champion.
"This is ament at his best; poetic, philosphical, and witty. His years of reflection and meditation on why we climb and what we gain from our efforts, and the risks we take, are finally, and with great insight, brought to focus on the Everest experience...The irreverent, satirical cartoons had me laughing out loud and alone are worth the price of the book. CLimbing Everest is a treasure I will pick up over and over again." - David Breashears, four-time summiter of Everest, and chief photographer for the IMAX film, Everest.
"I am utterly amazed at the mind that conceives such language. Pat treads a thin line between delicate, moving prose and sheer comic genius." - Tim Shultz, climber, writer.
"No Everest collection is complete without it." - Climbing.
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