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Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc The Kid Who Climbed Everest The Incredible Story Of A 23-Year-Olds Summit Of Mt. Everest by Bear Grylls
In 1996, A Twenty-Three-Year-Old Soldier In The British Army Was Flying Over An African Desert On A Routine Parachute Jump. He Had A Lot To Look Forward To-A Long Career Ahead Of Him In The Army, A Beautiful Girlfriend Back Home. But Those Dreams Were Cut Short When His Parachute Failed To Open At Eleven Thousand Feet. He Had Cracked Three Vertebrae And Come Within A Fraction Of Severing His Spinal Cord. A Grueling Eight Months Of Physical Therapy Followed. Bear Had To Retrain His Muscles To Do All Of The Things We Take For Granted-How To Sit, Stand, Walk, Even Breathe. Eighteen Months After His Accident He Overcame Incredible Odds To Reach The Peak Of Everest. The Kid Who Climbed Everest Is A Tale Of Courage And Determination. Bear'S Quest For Funding For His Expedition, His Seventy Days On Everest'S Southeast Face, And A Narrow Brush With Death After A Fall Into A Crevasse At Nineteen Thousand Feet, Make The Story An Essential Read For Anyone Who'S Ever Had A Dream And Made It Come True.