• ISBN13: 9781592284931
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: General Books
• Publisher: Lyons Press
• Publisher Imprint: Lyons Press
• Publication Date: January 1, 2004
• Pages: 283
• Original Price: USD 16.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 377 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Special Interest / Adventure

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.