This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen.
As Viesturs recounts the stories of his.
But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest.
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen
