Ebook: Summit 8000: life and death with Australia's greatest mountaineer

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; The 8000ers and Map; Foreword; Prologue: 30 July 1993; 1 Beginnings; 2 A Taste of Thin Air; 3 The Savage Mountain; 4 Frustration; 5 Turning the Key; 6 Summits and Betrayals; 7 A Dream Realised; 8 A Higher Goal; 9 High-Altitude Hollywood; 10 Good Days and Bad; 11 A Big Day Out; 12 The Most Dangerous Mountain in the World; 13 Getting Close; 14 Finish Line; 15 The Next Step; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Mountaineering Terms; Index; Sponsors; Pic Section;A thrilling memoir of the spectacular high - altitude mountaineering achievements of Andrew Lock: the only Australian to have summited all fourteen 8000 - metre peaks in the world, including Mount Everest - twice. Here Andrew Lock gives us a gripping account of his death - defying ascents and explains his passion for climbing in small teams, or solo, without Sherpas or bottled oxygen. Andrew's story is one of extraordinary passion, self - motivation, perseverance and resilience, as he leads us through his sixteen - year odyssey to achieve the Grand Slam of Himalayan mountaineering. We are take.