Beyond Possible: One Soldier, Fourteen Peaks — My Life In The Death Zone

By: Nimsdai Purja

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Synopsis: 'If you're going to get one book this year get Beyond Possible.' - Ant Middleton***Welcome to The Death Zone.Fourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers and dies. Until recently, the world record for climbing them all stood at nearly eight years.So I announced I was summiting them in under seven months.People laughed. They told me I was crazy, even though I'd sharpened my climbing skills on the brutal Himalayan peaks of Everest and Dhaulagiri. But I possessed more than enough belief, strength and resilience to nail the job, having taken down enemy gunmen and terrorist bomb makers while serving with the Gurkhas and the UK Special Forces.Throughout 2019, I came alive in the death zone. Soon after, I was showing the world a new truth: that with bravery and enough heart and drive, the impossible was possible...

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781529312270
Related ISBNs:: 9781529312249
Publisher:: Hodder & Stoughton
Date of Addition:: 07/09/21
Copyrighted By:: Nimsdai Purja
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Sports, Travel, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.