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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. 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. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most harrowing climbs, he reveals a man torn between the flat, safe world he and his loved ones share and the majestic and deadly places where only he can go.
A preternaturally cautious climber who once turned back 300 feet from the top of Everest but who would not shrink from a peak (Annapurna) known to claim the life of one climber for every two who reached its summit, Viesturs lives by an unyielding motto, “Reaching the summit is optional. Getting down is mandatory.” It is with this philosophy that he vividly describes fatal errors in judgment made by his fellow climbers as well as a few of his own close calls and gallant rescues. And, for the first time, he details his own pivotal and heroic role in the 1996 Everest disaster made famous in Jon Krakauer's  Into Thin Air. 
 In addition to the raw excitement of Viesturs’s odyssey,  No Shortcuts to the Top  is leavened with many funny moments revealing the camaraderie between climbers. It is more than the first full account of one of the staggering accomplishments of our time; it is a portrait of a brave and devoted family man and his beliefs that shaped this most perilous and magnificent pursuit.

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無(wú)氧登頂14座8000米的美國(guó)人，全球第十二位完成此舉的人，無(wú)氧完成的第六位?！哆M(jìn)入空氣稀薄地帶》事件的親歷者。近20年重要登山史的見(jiàn)證人。最吸引我的是他的登山理念和克服萬(wàn)難完成夢(mèng)想的堅(jiān)韌以及低調(diào)樸素的性格。
他的登山moto:Getting to the top is optional.Getting down is mandatory.
他貼身攜帶的妻子的祝福：Dreams are not made to put us to sleep,but to awaken us

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