Jim Davidson
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
In 1992 friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood triumphantly atop Washington's Mount Rainier. But their conquest gave way to catastrophe when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse -- the pitch-black, ice-walled hell that every climber's nightmares are made of -- Book jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood triumphantly atop Washington's Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate young mountaineers. Instead, their conquest gave way to catastrophe when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse--the pitch-black, ice-walled hell that every climber's nightmares are made of. At once a heart-stopping adventure story, a...
3) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest--and a return to reach the summit."--Back cover.
"On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed about 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in...
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Description
"When Markus Cottin begins pulling out some of the family mysteries, his father tells him he will find only "a chain of fools, each one worse than the one that came before." His search takes him to Colorado mining towns, to the Navajo reservation, and around the desert Four Corners region, and the tale he turns up is a shameful one of race politics and union troubles of the 1950s.
When he finds his own family involved in bombings and the murder of...