Everest Inc

the renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world
Will Cockrell
Book - 2024

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cockrell, Will (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024
Edition:First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
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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. 
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