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FACING UP: A REMARKABLE JOURNEY TO THE SUMMIT OF EVEREST Bear Grylls 2000 1st UK edition DJ
By Grylls, Bear
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UK, 2000, 1st edition. 289 pp, color photos. Only one in four people who attempt Everest are successful, and of those few the majority are over 30. Bear Grylls overcame the extreme weather conditions and months of limited sleep, and reached the summit at the age of 23, becoming the youngest British climber to scale Mount Everest.
In this down-to-earth and pacey narrative Bear takes the reader on a journey. However, this is a story that encompasses much more than his Everest climb - only a year before his success Bear broke his back while parachuting for the British army in Africa. At the time he felt incredibly lucky that he had not been permanently paralyzed, and yet the specialist's forecast was not encouraging. With courage and bravery he fought the return to the active life he had been used to.
From the frustration of lying in bed for nine months, to being knocked unconscious and coming-to whilst swinging on the end of a rope with nothing but a yawning chasm beneath him, Bear Grylls has an inspiring story to tell. Hardcover, DJ, as New.
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