Bibliograph

The escapist, cheating death on the world's highest mountains, Gabriel Filippi with Brett Popplewell

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The escapist, cheating death on the world's highest mountains, Gabriel Filippi with Brett Popplewell

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The escapist

Oclc number

964504125

Responsibility statement

Gabriel Filippi with Brett Popplewell

Sub title

cheating death on the world's highest mountains

Summary

In this gripping, heartfelt and inspiring memoir, one of Canada's foremost mountaineers shares a life spent in and out of the death zone. The ESCAPIST is a story about human perseverance and triumph in the pursuit of one man's dreams, and helps to explain why some people will never give up on trying to climb to the top of the world. In the course of 20 years spent scaling the highest peaks in the world, Filippi has repeatedly cheated death. From a Taliban attack on a mountainside in Pakistan that felled ten of his climbing companions to the deadliest disaster in Everest's history, Filippi has survived again and again

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