{"product_id":"the-escapist-cheating-death-on-the-worlds-highest-mountains","title":"The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World's Highest Mountains","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs a young boy growing up in Lac-Mgantic  Gabriel Filippi lived in fear of drowning. A close encounter in a childhood swimming pool left him terrified of the depths  but he had no idea that it was the heights of this world that would eventually call himand threaten his life over and over again. In the course of 20 years spent scaling the highest peaks in the world  Filippi has repeatedly cheated death. From a Taliban attack on a mountainside in northern Pakistan that felled ten of his climbing companions to the deadliest disaster in Everests history  Filippi has survived again and again. But sometimes survival comes with a price. In The Escapist  Filippi proves an old axiom true: no climber returns from a summit the same person as when he began his ascent. Sometimes the alteration is physical  but more often its buried within. The Escapist is an unflinching account of extreme feats and devastating loss that takes readers to the highest peaks on six continents and into the deepest valleys of the human soul. In a book marked by adventure and tragedy  Filippi dissects what it takes to get to the top of the world  and what that quest takes out of you. Haunted by survivors guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder  Filippi explains how life on the brink of death can change someone. He chronicles how his experiences on mountains ranging from K2 to Everest to Nanga Parbat  a mountain in Pakistan also known as The Maneater  transformed him from a hubristic young man who pushed himself to the brink into the cautious adventurer who preserved seven lives when he halted an ascent up Everest just an hour from the summit. In this gripping  heartfelt and inspiring memoir  one of Canadas foremost mountaineers shares a life spent in and out of the death zone. The Escapist is a story about human perseverance and triumph in the pursuit of one mans dreams  and helps to explain why some people will never give up on trying to climb to the top of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966193594421,"sku":"ByrdShop_1443450162","price":59.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781443450164.jpg?v=1770556912","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-escapist-cheating-death-on-the-worlds-highest-mountains","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}