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Master of Thin Air

Master of Thin Air

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Named one of the "Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer" by Backpacker MagazineFor readers of Into Thin Air, riveting high-altitude drama and...

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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 K2 in addition to his mountaineering know-how and sheer good luck drove 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 mo

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