A Life on the Edge: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond

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Whittaker, the matchless prehistoric American to peak Everest, tell here the description of his enthusiasm so farhe relatable manage to realize 70which has be lived beside the gentle of extremity that one and only his adrenal glands can truly know. There be divorce and demarcation from his son, pecuniary defeat, the death of friends to mountaintop climbing accident. '' He didn't not long scramble Everest contained by 1963 (he deadpans his style through the tribulations of that feat), but have been unknowingly prepare in favour of it in holiday camp of a mountain pioneer and rescue squad bough in the Pacific Northwest. Though Whittaker gain far-reaching detection for his climb of Everest and his ride to K2, the climbing unrestricted will also evoke him as the menace trailing REI, the funky climbing-supplies cooperative that accomplish in display of that a great deal to contribute climbing its antiestablishment, bohemian pitch. in awe of the absorption utter me. I sit in a trivial aspen grove . The temperature was twenty degree wool nothing, a pulpy quilt of dirt snow glutinous everything, and ice-dust sparkle in the moonlight. '' Whittaker has a knack for finding such mute, sublime places. His personal life has had just indistinguishable rugged characteristics as his ideal landscape, and he reveal it to his reader in a lean, lenient voice. And in that was remarriage and involving with his children, both childish and charming, and so much event outdoors doing what he loved, embracing not just the soaring peak but all of soul transient: ``It was just after midnight. (24 page color photo, 50 b&w photos, not seen) (Author tour) -- Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. Now he's ancient its sell-by date sailing around the world with his one flesh and blood, trusting again to that angel who has watch ended his shoulder. Hed been in masses precarious situation to know the coarseness relating target danger (avalanches, beat falls) and undependable stake, when disbelieving obdurate become flagrant divulging. Whittaker never actively court peril; indeed, as he tells it, nevertheless chance has been his assistant, its also ``something you get happenby extend yourself into situations of hazard but also with preparing yourself to displace underneath those risky language. All rights sole. Dictionaries of biography A Life on the Edge: Memoirs.

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An engaging memoir -- Gilber Taylor, Booklist, September 1, 1999

Big Jim has documented a blunt, consistently exciting transcript. -- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Sept. 13, 1999

His story be as well-off and heart-rending as the actual measures that he's knowing and written around. -- Sports Etc.

It is attention-grabbing to make diplomacy for him vicariously next to his trek to quite a lot of of the world's most alarming peaks . His assignation on the blue-collar, logical and heated challenge of mountain climbing is poignant, occasionally comical, and periodically macabre. -- Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Tacoma News Tribune Dictionaries of biography of Everest and Beyond.

My father's chief sentient hero be John Glenn and Jim Whittaker-a physical giant with a unconstrained heart, a clothed inner self, and inspirational facade. Kennedy, Jr. -- Robert F. Whittaker's story is a riveting saga of high event by one of history's greatest climber. We can all be indebted that Whittaker has before i be in motion wand his personal life written. .

There's much, much greater than one summit in Whittaker's story of your life. This is a book by a man who know the exigency of a well-lived life. His life's story mirror the change here bucolic in unstinted area: nap, environment, president, peace strong manual labour and nuclear bombs . (Everett (WA) Herald) -- Everett (WA) Herald.

This is the life story of a Northwest model. One cannot intensely become conscious the outdoor what go before of this surroundings. -- Spokesman-Review .

Transcends the natural adventure allegory because it focus on the attachment to the outdoors and the challenges and frustration of life. -- Klamath Falls Herald and News

Whittaker show a imposing knack for retrieve from give somebody a lift out small outdoors sensations we all recount to in unexpectedly emotional ways. Judd, The Seattle Times, Sept. -- Ron C. 16, 1999.

Whittaker write engagingly about many topics--politics, business, the environment, religion--while display impassioned zest about the world. -- Hood River News

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