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Ascent into Hell

By: Fergus White
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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This personal, day-by-day chronicle takes the listener along every step of an Everest climb. A must for climbing enthusiasts, lovers of adventure, and extreme sport junkies; the closing chapters will leave you breathless.

There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest. What starts with a trouble-free trek into the Nepalese highlands explodes into a gripping tale of hardship, peril and adversity. Pushed beyond their physical and mental limits, climbers drop by the wayside. Their primal instincts for survival battle with their dogged resolve to drag themselves to the top of the world. But the focus remains: battle to the summit, and if successful, somehow get back down again.

©2017 Fergus White (P)2019 Tantor Climbing & Mountaineering Extreme Sports Outdoors & Nature Sports Adventure
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I've listened to many books on Everest but this was by far my favourite. If you're looking for a big disaster - read The Climb or Into Thin Air. However, if you're looking for an honest, enthralling and sometimes funny account of an average man's journey to reach the summit...this is the book for you.

Enjoyed every, single second.

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The detail should give this book a prominent place among the journals written about submitting Everest.
Loved the story but not the narrator

Fantastic account of the journey to Everest summit

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An excellent and detailed book giving an accurate and detailed account of climbing a mountain. in this case Everest, but much of what is described applies on lesser peaks too.

An excellent and detailed book

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I have read and listened to an awful lot of mountain (in particular Everest) books over the last 4/5 years and this tops the lot. Into Thin Air, No Way Down, Ghosts of K2, Ascent, Left for Dead, One Mans Everest, K2, Alone on the Wall, Dark Summit, Eiger Dreams, The Beckoning Silence.......I have it above them all. It starts at the trek in to Everest and brings you on a step by step journey through a full 2 month expedition. It is so brilliantly descriptive that i could picture each moment as it was being described. The narration was excellent, couldn't fault it. And after so many years of hearing stuff like "Anyone can get to the top of Everest, you just need to be reasonably fit" this book completely dispels that myth and tells the true story of climbing the worlds tallest mountain. I didn't want the book to end........So i am currently listening to it again!!! The only book that comes close imo is Touching The Void.

Best mountain book i've listened to

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So if you're thinking , who's the climber? Is he famous? No. So why should you read about a Nobby Nobody on an Everest quest. Because he's a normal bloke, entering his middle age and seeing if he has the skills, the fitness and the balls to do it before old age creeps in. And what a read. I have read many many Everest books, this is the best of them. Thats a bold statement, I know. But this is a warts and all account and no details left untold. I felt exhausted after reading it. Felt almost like I took every step

A roller-coaster white knuckle ride

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