Everest, Inc.: The Renegades And Rogues Who Built An Industry At The Top Of The World

  • Autor: Will Cockrell
  • Narrador: Pete Simonelli
  • Editora: Simon & Schuster
  • Duração: 9:59:30
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Sinopse

Featuring original interviews with Everest mountain guides and climbers, this is “a fast-moving, nuanced account of the peak’s transformation from the ultimate mountaineering challenge into a booming business opportunity” (Joshua Hammer, New York Times bestselling author).

Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have a sense of what the world’s highest mountain is like. It’s an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can kill; an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination; and a place where the rich exploit local Sherpas while padding their egos—and social media feeds.

There’s some truth to these clichés, but they’re a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. is the definitive account of how a few daring entrepreneurs paired raw courage and naked ambition to get paying clients safely up and down Everest. Until the late eighties, such a thing was considered impossible. Within a few years, Everest guiding was a burgeoning industry. Today, ninety percent of the people on the mountain are clients or employees of guided expeditions.

Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred Western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, and filmmakers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker—Everest, Inc. foregrounds the colorful voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. As professional climber and author Freddie Wilkinson says, “Whether you are thinking about taking a crack at the world’s highest peak or are simply an armchair mountaineer trying to make sense of the complex dynamics driving the modern Everest industry, Everest, Inc. should be required reading.”

Capítulos

  • 001 EverestInc Open

    Duração: 16s
  • 002 EverestInc Introduction

    Duração: 07min
  • 003 EverestInc Prologue

    Duração: 22min
  • 004 EverestInc Chapter1

    Duração: 18min
  • 005 EverestInc Chapter2

    Duração: 20min
  • 006 EverestInc Chapter3

    Duração: 30min
  • 007 EverestInc Chapter4

    Duração: 30min
  • 008 EverestInc Chapter5

    Duração: 27min
  • 009 EverestInc Chapter6

    Duração: 33min
  • 010 EverestInc Chapter7

    Duração: 25min
  • 011 EverestInc Chapter8

    Duração: 23min
  • 012 EverestInc Chapter9

    Duração: 35min
  • 013 EverestInc Chapter10

    Duração: 27min
  • 014 EverestInc Chapter11

    Duração: 23min
  • 015 EverestInc Chapter12

    Duração: 36min
  • 016 EverestInc Chapter13

    Duração: 29min
  • 017 EverestInc Chapter14

    Duração: 30min
  • 018 EverestInc Chapter15

    Duração: 24min
  • 019 EverestInc Chapter16

    Duração: 27min
  • 020 EverestInc Chapter17

    Duração: 22min
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