Name: The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak
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Author: David Roberts
ISBN: 9780307720436

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The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak

Type

Physical Book

Author

David Roberts

Ed Viesturs

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Year

2012

Language

English

Pages

281

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.3 x 13.6 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.24 kg.

ISBN

0307720438

ISBN13

9780307720436

Synopsis "The Will to Climb: Obsession and Commitment and the Quest to Climb Annapurna--The World's Deadliest Peak "

The bestselling author of The Mountain and No Shortcuts to the Top chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made--or attempted--the ascent. "Viesturs and Roberts have written an exhaustively researched and wonderfully compelling history of the most fascinating and dangerous of the Himalayan giants."--David Breashers, veteran mountaineer and documentary filmmaker, director of IMAX film EverestAs a high school student, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog's famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world's fourteen highest peaks in the late 1980s, Viesturs looked forward with trepidation to undertaking Annapurna himself. Two failures to summit in 2000 and 2002 made Annapurna his nemesis. His successful 2005 ascent was the triumphant capstone of his climbing quest. In The Will to Climb Viesturs and co-author David Roberts bring the extraordinary challenges of Annapurna to vivid life through edge-of-your-seat accounts of the greatest climbs in the mountain's history, and of his own failed attempts and eventual success. In the process Viesturs ponders what Annapurna reveals about some of our most fundamental moral and spiritual questions--questions, he believes, that we need to answer to lead our lives well.

David Roberts

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David Roberts es un ilustrador y autor británico conocido principalmente por su trabajo en libros infantiles. Su estilo se caracteriza por el uso de colores vibrantes, personajes expresivos y un enfoque lúdico que capta la atención de los niños, combinando humor y calidez en cada ilustración.

Roberts ha colaborado con diversos autores reconocidos, entre ellos Andrea Beaty en libros como Rosie Revere, Engineer, Ada Twist, Scientist e Iggy Peck, Architect, donde sus ilustraciones complementan perfectamente la narrativa, haciendo que las historias sean más accesibles y atractivas para los jóvenes lectores.

Además de trabajar como ilustrador, Roberts ha publicado sus propios libros infantiles, donde combina sus habilidades narrativas y artísticas para crear historias originales. Su trabajo ha recibido elogios tanto de críticos como de educadores, y sus libros se utilizan ampliamente en entornos escolares para fomentar la lectura, la creatividad y el interés por temas STEM (ciencia, tecnología, ingeniería y matemáticas).

Su contribución a la literatura infantil contemporánea lo ha consolidado como uno de los ilustradores más influyentes del Reino Unido, conocido por inspirar a generaciones de jóvenes lectores con su arte dinámico y expresivo.

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