Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest - Hardcover

Weathers, Beck; Michaud, Stephen G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375504044 ISBN 13: 9780375504044

Verlag: Villard Books, 2000

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Book by Weathers Beck

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A survivor of the doomed 1996 Everest expedition recalls the daring rescue that brought him home alive and his subsequent physical and psychological recovery

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churchly nor a particularly spiritual person, but I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of my return to life.

On May 10, 1996, nine climbers perished in a blizzard high on Mount Everest, the single deadliest day ever on the peak. The following day, one of those victims was given a second chance. His name was Beck Weathers.
The tale of Dr. Seaborn Beck Weathers's miraculous awakening from a deep hypothermic coma was widely reported. But the hidden story of what led the pathologist to Everest in the first place, and his painful recovery after his dramatic rescue, has not been told until now.
Brilliant and gregarious, Weathers discovered in his thirties that mountain climbing helped him cope with the black dog of depression that had shadowed him since college. But the self-prescribed therapy came at a steep cost: estrangem

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• Verlag: Villard Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375504044
• ISBN 13: 9780375504044
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292