Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit.
The experience left him shaken, and despite his thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn't sure that he would ever go back. After spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain.
It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed about 8,900 people. 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. One of Atlas & Boots' Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021 A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everest-and a return to reach the summit.
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