Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest, (Paperback)

from bookymouse

I had been wanting to read this for awhile. Beck Weathers was left for dead twice during the 1996 Everest season. This is the account of his recovery, as well as what led him to the mountain to begin with. I started it this morning and just finished it. This is a brutally honest look inside a ver...

from SquirrelHead

If you have read Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air and wanted to know more about Beck Weathers, the man who nearly froze to death, Check out his book Left for Dead. The descriptions of the harsh climate and brutal conditions are well detailed in the first portion of his book. Beck was is bad shap...

from MikeAWalters

I enjoyed this book very much. I saw Everest on the big screen and was disappointed at the film's effort at fleshing out the characters a little more. I wanted to know more about Beck Weathers and this book did just that. I would recommend to anyone not only interested in the film, but in surviva...

from bookymouse

I had been wanting to read this for awhile. Beck Weathers was left for dead twice during the 1996 Everest season. This is the account of his recovery, as well as what led him to the mountain to begin with. I started it this morning and just finished it. This is a brutally honest look inside a ver...

from Katymelrose

I think Beck's story is intriguing and almost fairy-tale-ish....but not in a bad way. It is because so much of his outlook on life changed based on that one incident, it wasn't a gradual change like life usually is. Because of my expectations, I wasn't sure I was going to be too terribly interest...