Everest, Inc. : the renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world / Will Cockrell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cockrell, Will, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mountaineers--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)--Biography.

Mountaineers.

Mountaineering expeditions--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).

Mountaineering expeditions.

Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).

Genre:

Biography.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 331 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

Other Title:

Renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world

Place of Publication:

New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024

Summary:

"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 clichés, 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"-- Amazon.com.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781982190453

1982190450

OCLC:

1416719597