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About this book
The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowing memoirāan intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth's highest peak to the soul's deepest reaches.
What drives a person to the edge of one of the most difficult and revered mountains in the world? How much is one willing to sacrifice and suffer to pursue an authentic and bold life? The most accomplished mountain runner of all time, Kilian Jornet ponders these questions as he contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest, exploring the mountain's changing nature over four seasons and his own existence.
As he recounts a life spent studying, tending, and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet ruminates on what he has found in natureāsimplicity, freedom, and spiritual joyāand offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his relationship to the mountain . . . at times his opponent, at others, his greatest muse.
In this sweeping, soulful journeyāthe flip side of stories like Into Thin AirāJornet illuminates with beauty and brilliance what it means to be an athlete, a competitor, and a human facing the greatest life challengesāfor him, the mountain he yearns to climb and honour.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Note to Readers
- Introduction
- The Farewell
- Training
- My Home Is the Mountain
- More Than Five Hundred Race Numbers
- Partners in Dreams
- Experiences That Changed Me Forever
- Epilogue: The Welcome
- About the Author
- Also by Kilian Jornet
- About the Publisher
