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  • The Next Everest

  • Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
  • By: Jim Davidson
  • Narrated by: Jim Davidson, Tim Campbell
  • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (13 ratings)

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By: Jim Davidson
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Summary

This program includes excerpts read by the author.

One of Atlas & Boots' Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021

A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest - and a return to reach the summit.

On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in 81 years and killed about 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with 18 people losing their lives on the mountain.

After spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. The experience left him shaken, and despite his 33 years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn’t sure that he would ever go back. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit.

Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. Davidson's background in geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain how this natural disaster unfolded and why the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. But this story is not about “conquering” the world’s highest peak. Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their “next Everest” in life.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press

"Among all outdoor pursuits, climbing mountains offers the purest, most direct challenge. Jim Davidson weaves his experiences with avalanches, crevasse falls, earthquakes, altitude, frostbite, and other Himalayan hazards into an exciting, sometimes somber introspective narrative, describing not just how he survives climbing the highest mountains in the world, but more importantly, why he must go again and again." (Roman Dial, author of The Adventurer’s Son)

©2021 Jim Davidson (P)2021 Macmillan Audio
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Epic & Inspiring Read

With a trip planned to Nepal to trek and stay at Everest Base Camp, I’ve been reading & listening to anything related. The Next Everest tells the inspiring story of how Jim of Jim’s journey through adversity on the mountain in 2015 and his courageous return in 2017. Highly recommended

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Great book

Took n me a awesome journey to the to of the tallest
Mountain in the world.

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