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03552aam a2200361 i 4500 001 DA3AD012084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240502011849 008 231103s2024 nyuabf b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 1982190450 020 $a 9781982190453 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1416719597 040 $a CNWPU $b eng $e rda $c CNWPU $d BDX $d YDX $d TOH $d HQD $d HBP $d OJ4 $d GO6 $d CHY $d CLE $d OCLCO $d JQM $d SILO 043 $a a-np--- $a a-np--- 050 4 $a GV199.44.E85 $b C645 2024 082 74 $a 796.522/095496 $2 23 082 04 $a 796.522096 $2 23 100 1 $a Cockrell, Will, $e author. 245 10 $a Everest, Inc. : $b the renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world / $c Will Cockrell. 246 30 $a Renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world 250 $a First Gallery Books hardcover edition. 260 $a New York : $b Gallery Books, $c 2024. 300 $a x, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b color illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Large mouth bass -- Peak XV -- The 174th ascent of Mount Everest -- Seven summits fever -- The new race to the top -- One hundred percent success -- The art of guiding -- The big five -- The imperfect storm -- The world's worst self-help book -- The immortality project -- The big top -- The weight of history -- An insurgency in waiting -- Free Mount Everest -- Collapse -- Everest through a lens -- Under new management -- The Himalayan fame game -- #brotherhood. 520 $a "Anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air or has seen a recent photo of climbers standing in line to get to the top of Everest may think they have the mountain pretty well figured out. It's an extreme landscape where bad weather and incredible altitude can occasionally kill, but more so an overcrowded, trashed-out recreation destination where rich clients pad their egos--and social media feeds--while exploiting local Sherpas. There's some truth to these clicheÌs, but they're a sliver of the story. Unlike any book to date, Everest, Inc. gets to the heart of the mountain through the definitive story of its greatest invention: the Himalayan guiding industry. It all began in the 1980s with a few boot-strapping entrepreneurs who paired raw courage and naked ambition with a new style of expedition planning. Many of them are still living and climbing today, and as a result of their astonishing success, ninety percent of the people now on Everest are clients or employees of guided expeditions. Studded with quotes from original interviews with more than a hundred western and Sherpa climbers, clients, writers, filmmakers, and even a Hollywood actor, Everest, Inc. foregrounds the voices of the people who have made the mountain what it is today. And while there is plenty of high-altitude drama in unpacking the last forty years of Everest tragedy and triumph, it ultimately transcends stereotypes and tells the uplifting counternarrative of the army of journeymen and women who have made people's dreams come true, and of the Nepalis who are pushing the industry into the future"-- $c from the dust jacket. 650 0 $a Mountaineers $z Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Mountaineering expeditions $z Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) 651 0 $a Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240502012142.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DA3AD012084B11EFBCAD05DA2DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search