No Shortcuts to the Top av Ed Viesturs, David Roberts

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<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This gripping and triumphant memoir from the author of <i>The Mountain</i> follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.<br><br><b>“From the drama of the peaks, to the struggle of making a living as a professional climber, to the basic how-tos of life at 26,000 feet, <i>No Shortcuts to the Top</i> is fascinating reading.”—Aron Ralston, author of <i>Between a Rock and a Hard Place</i> and subject of the film <i>127 Hours</i></b><br><br></b>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<i> No Shortcuts to the Top</i> 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