Left for Dead
by Beck Weathers with Stephen G. Michaud
The Everest 1996 survivor's account of being abandoned twice and walking back, and the deeper story of the depression that drove him to climb. Honest about family cost.
Read it if…
you want the Everest story from the man who should have died.
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Skip it if…
you want climbing detail.
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Three things you will actually use
- Ambition can be flight from pain.
- Family bears the cost.
- Second chances demand change.
Do this first
Read the chapter on waking up in the snow.
Our verdict
Back from the dead on Everest.
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