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

  • Autor: Will Cockrell
  • Narrador: Pete Simonelli
  • Editor: Simon & Schuster
  • Duración: 9:59:30
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Sinopsis

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

    Duración: 16s
  • 002 EverestInc Introduction

    Duración: 07min
  • 003 EverestInc Prologue

    Duración: 22min
  • 004 EverestInc Chapter1

    Duración: 18min
  • 005 EverestInc Chapter2

    Duración: 20min
  • 006 EverestInc Chapter3

    Duración: 30min
  • 007 EverestInc Chapter4

    Duración: 30min
  • 008 EverestInc Chapter5

    Duración: 27min
  • 009 EverestInc Chapter6

    Duración: 33min
  • 010 EverestInc Chapter7

    Duración: 25min
  • 011 EverestInc Chapter8

    Duración: 23min
  • 012 EverestInc Chapter9

    Duración: 35min
  • 013 EverestInc Chapter10

    Duración: 27min
  • 014 EverestInc Chapter11

    Duración: 23min
  • 015 EverestInc Chapter12

    Duración: 36min
  • 016 EverestInc Chapter13

    Duración: 29min
  • 017 EverestInc Chapter14

    Duración: 30min
  • 018 EverestInc Chapter15

    Duración: 24min
  • 019 EverestInc Chapter16

    Duración: 27min
  • 020 EverestInc Chapter17

    Duración: 22min
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