- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; Reissue edition (Nov 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440237084
- ISBN-13: 978-0440237082
- Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 1.9 x 17.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,686,110 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"An engaging memoir . . . Candid [and] moving . . ."
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* The extraordinary story of one of the survivors of the infamous 1996 Everest disaster * Describes not only the author's indomitable will to live but also his determination to rebuild his life
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On the evening of May 10, 1996, a killer blizzard exploded around the upper reaches of Mount Everest, trapping me and dozens of other climbers high in the Death Zone of the Earth's tallest mountain. Read the first page
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On the evening of May 10, 1996, a killer blizzard exploded around the upper reaches of Mount Everest, trapping me and dozens of other climbers high in the Death Zone of the Earth's tallest mountain. Read the first page
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The first two chapters were an excellent account of what is now a well known story. However, after that, the book switches from the climbing to the history of the Weathers' family. I found this added little to the story. If it's a climbing book you want, I would ignore this.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This epic starts out as a tale of tragic loss and human suffering but it develops into so much more.Beck Weathers drags the reader kicking and screaming up and down some of the highest peaks in the world.For what purpose? Maybe to escape the depths of depression he tries to conquer the euphoric heights of achievment and continually pushes his bodies limits.Its no surprise then when it all ends in tragedy but even severe frostbite resulting in amputation cannot quell this remarkable mans indomitable spirit.
This is a moving account of one mans attempt to conquer the highest mountain and also the deepest darkest recesses of his own mind.
This is a moving account of one mans attempt to conquer the highest mountain and also the deepest darkest recesses of his own mind.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I decided like many others to read this book after hearing about the accident in Into Thin Air, it gives as wonderfully different pespective as only i guess it could do.
It also opened my eyes to the general relationship problems the mountaineers seem to have, they use the mountains as a means of escape.
It is an lonley and isolated tale... well worth a read
It also opened my eyes to the general relationship problems the mountaineers seem to have, they use the mountains as a means of escape.
It is an lonley and isolated tale... well worth a read
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A fortunate man
Beck Weathers is famous for not dying on Everest during the ill fated expedition that has been documented in "Into Thin Air". Read more
Published 14 months ago by SCM
Driven Destructive Depressive
`Left For Dead' is not really a mountaineering book as it deals only briefly with already well documented tragic events on Mount Everest in 1996 and even more briefly with a few... Read more
Published 15 months ago by D. Elliott
Mountains versus Family!
I wanted to read this because of my obsession with the 1996 Everest Disaster in which Beck Weathers was actually left for dead out in the blizzard. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Steen Lykke Laursen
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I received my ordered product as it was presented on the Amazon.com website. Satisfied.
Published on 31 May 2009 by Pauline Seals
Left for dead
A good book overall but has a lot of page filling with non related material but finishes well.
Published on 2 Mar 2009 by George Mcnally
Not what I was expecting
I picked this up in the mountaineering section expecting some good tales from the 1996 expedition. Although well written, after the first couple of chapters the book goes into the... Read more
Published on 12 Nov 2007 by speakmymind
LEFT FOR DEAD...LUCKY TO BE ALIVE...LUCKY TO BE READ...
This book has a great title, as it sums up Beck Weathers' Mt. Everest experience.Unfortunately, this is the only great thing about this book. Read more
Published on 17 April 2007 by Lawyeraau
LEFT FOR DEAD...LUCKY TO BE ALIVE...LUCKY TO BE READ...
This book has a great title, as it sums up Beck Weathers' Mt. Everest experience.Unfortunately, this is the only great thing about this book. Read more
Published on 6 Mar 2006 by Lawyeraau
Not what I expected
The big problem with this book is its been billed as a book on mountaineering and often placed in the adventure sections. Its not a book on mountaineering. Read more
Published on 6 Nov 2003 by J. Crane
Don't read this if you have a trip to Everest planned!
I heard Beck Weathers' name when viewing the IMAX Everest film. I knew he'd have to write a book based on his experience and here it is. Read more
Published on 17 July 2003 by C. Clark
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