My Life on the Ledge: Everest West Ridge, Winter K2, and a Search for Purpose

At nineteen, Nick Cienski left college for the world’s highest peaks, climbing with no bottled oxygen, no Sherpa support, and plenty of hard lessons. A hundred-foot fall into a cave should have killed him. Losing a boot above 8,000 meters should have sent him home. And surviving the deadly avalanche that tore through Everest Base Camp in 2015 should have been enough to make him stop. Drawn from journals written while his hands were still shaking, My Life on the Ledge takes readers from the ...