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Within Reach: My Everest Story (Read180 Audiobooks)
Within Reach My Everest Story - Read180 Audiobooks Author:Mark Pfetzer, Jack Galvin Unabridged audiobook on 9 cassettes! — May 10, 1996. 16-yr-old Mark Pfetzer huddles in his tent at 26,000 feet, waiting for his turn to attempt Everest's summit. As a fierce storm descends on the camp, a frightening realization dawns on Mark and his colleagues: Many of the climbers have not yet returned. — By morning the storm has claimed eight li... more »ves -- and Mark's long-dreamed-of summit day has become one of the bleakest days in mountaineering history.
This is Mark's fascinating first-person account of his Everest experience, in which he takes us past the ever-shifting Khumbu Icefall, over three-hundred-foot crevasses, and up to the high-altitude "Death Zone".« less