Publisher Description
On June 21, 1992, two best friends summited Mount Rainier. Within hours, their exquisite accomplishment would be overshadowed by tragedy. On their descent, Jim Davidson fell through an ice bridge on Rainier's northeast flank, plunging eighty feet into a narrow crevasse inside the Emmons Glacier and dragging Mike Price in after him. Mike fell to his death; Jim, badly injured and armed with minimal gear, faced an almost impossible climb back out of the crevasse, up a nearly vertical ice wall. Mourning his friend's death, he miraculously climbed out of the crevasse and lived to relate his experiences.
Told in parallel narratives of the tragedy and the climbers' lives, The Ledge is both a riveting, wrenching story and an inspirational adventure tale.
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"i'm a sucker for mountaineering books, especially this one because when i walk outside i see mt. rainier where this book takes place. also, i now spontaneously shout out "ice crevasse!" whenever i can.
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Amy (4 out of 5 stars)
About the Authors
Jim Davidson is coauthor
with Kevin Vaughan of The Ledge which
was one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2011, winner of the National Outdoor Book
Award in Outdoor Literature (2012), and finalist at the Banff Mountain Book
Competition in Canada. This amazing survival story is also featured in the
“Killer Crevasse” episode of the television show I Shouldn’t Be Alive. Jim is a climber and international speaker
who shares lessons distilled from a lifetime of mountain adventures. He has
scaled peaks across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to
Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Jim has summited
the sixth highest peak in the world, Cho Oyu at 26,906 feet. He has volunteered
for several difficult mountain rescues, for which the National Park Service has
commended him and his teammates twice. As a mountain climber and expedition
leader for thirty years, Jim is an expert in resilience. Prior to being a
professional speaker and adventure writer, Jim worked as an environmental
geologist for twenty-two years.
Kevin Vaughan,
senior reporter at the I-News Network, is an award-winning journalist and
author. Over his twenty-five-year career he has written for the Fort Morgan Times, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Denver Post and has covered some of the
state’s biggest stories, including the tragedy at Columbine High School,
Colorado’s horrific wildfire season of 2002, and the Colorado Rockies’ 2007
World Series run. He is a 1986 graduate of Metropolitan State College, and his
work has been honored numerous times. His 2007 Rocky Mountain News series, “The Crossing,” which
examined the lifelong reverberations of Colorado’s worst traffic accident, was
a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. He is the coauthor with
Jim Davidson of the best-seller The
Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier.