No Shortcuts to the Top
Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks
by Ed Viesturs
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appears in Adventure, Travel, and Fiction.
This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of The Mountain follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000meter summit at a time.For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing_x0092_s holy grail: to stand atop the world_x0092_s fourteen 8,000meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Short...
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