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"My father's maximum residing heroes have been John Glenn and Jim Whittaker—a actual immense with an important center, an honest soul, and inspirational braveness. we will be able to all be thankful that Whittaker has ultimately positioned his amazing existence on paper. Whittaker's tale is a riveting saga of excessive experience by means of one among history's maximum climbers." —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

* distinctive anniversary version to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the 1st American ascent of Mount Everest

* New foreword through Ed Viesturs and a brand new afterword via the author

* greater than a hundred photographs, together with a number of never-before-published images

In could of 1963 Seattle mountaineer Jim Whittaker stepped into global background by means of changing into the 1st American to summit Mount Everest. Fifty years later, he's nonetheless considered as a seminal determine in North American hiking, in addition to an astute businessman who helped create the outside sport industry.

A lifestyles at the side: Memoirs of Everest and Beyond is Jim's brave, no-punches-pulled autobiography and a glance at a peripatetic, occasionally tough existence. past the honor of the Everest summit and his different notable hiking feats, together with the 1st American summit of K2, he brazenly describes his own, "everyman" event of social upheaval within the Nineteen Sixties and 70s, an early divorce, relatives strife, a passionate new love later in lifestyles, near-bankruptcy, and company triumphs and losses. Jim tells all of it with verve and honesty and, real to his nature, turns each setback into the degree for brand new experience. This distinctive fiftieth anniversary variation celebrates the tale of Jim's lifestyles and contours a brand new foreword through Ed Viesturs, in addition to a brand new ultimate bankruptcy that brings readers up to date, together with info of his trek to Everest Base Camp in 2012 and his son Leif's fresh winning summits of Everest.

Need extra Jim Whittaker? Checkout his interview on New Day Northwest as he talks approximately Everest, education, and the surprising modifications among mountain climbing Everest 50 years in the past as opposed to today.