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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Cockrell, Will, author.     Subjects     Mountaineering expeditions -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)     Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)     Mountaineers -- Biography.     Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)     Browse Catalog     by author:      Cockrell, Will, author.       by title:      Everest, Inc. : the ...         MARC Display

Everest, Inc. : the renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world / Will Cockrell. by Cockrell, Will, author. New York : Gallery Books, 2024. Subjects Mountaineering expeditions -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)   Mountaineering -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)   Mountaineers -- Biography.   Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) ISBN:  9781982190453 (hardcover) 1982190450 (hardcover) Description:  x, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Edition:  First Gallery Books hardcover edition. Requests:  3 Summary:  "Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have the mountain pretty well figured out. It's an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can occasionally kill, but more so an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination where rich clients pad their egos--and social media feeds--while exploiting local Sherpas. There's some truth to these clichés, but they're a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. gets to the heart of the mountain through the definitive story of its greatest invention: the Himalayan guiding industry. It all began in the 1980s with a few boot-strapping entrepreneurs who paired raw courage and naked ambition with a new style of expedition planning. Many of them are still living and climbing today, and as a result of their astonishing success, ninety percent of the people now on Everest are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, filmmakers, and even a Hollywood actor, Everest, Inc. foregrounds the voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. And while there is plenty of high-altitude drama in unpacking the last forty years of Everest tragedy and triumph, it ultimately transcends stereotypes and tells the uplifting counternarrative of the army of journeymen and women who have made people's dreams come true, and of the Nepalis who are pushing the industry into the future"-- Amazon.com.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.52209 Co Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Kaneohe Public Library Pop-Up Adult Nonfiction 796.52209 Co Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Lihue Public Library Adult New Books 796.52209 Co Checked In   Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.52209 Co Checked out 09/30/2024 Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Nonfiction 796.52209 Co Checked In   Add Copy to MyList

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