Ultimate high · my Everest odyssey
- Authors
- Kropp, Göran & Lagercrantz, David
- Publisher
- Discovery Books
- Tags
- mountaineers , everest , biography , mount (china and nepal) , travel , adventure , sports - general , biography , autobiography , kropp , adventure , mountaineering , travel , göran , sweden , special interest - adventure
- ISBN
- 9781563318306
- Date
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.87 MB
- Lang
- en
Includes index;Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index;A personal account of one man's determination to climb Mount Everest alone describes how the Swedish climber accomplished his goal, within days of the 1995 tragedy that took the lives of a number of fellow climbers
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-221) and index
Goran Kropp, a Swedish adventurer, set out from Stockholm, Sweden on a Crescent Ultima bicycle and traveled 5 months and 8,000 miles carrying 240 lbs. of gear with him. He ascended Mt. Everest in May 1996, unassisted and without the use of supplemental oxygen, days after the tragedy that claimed 8 climbers. He then returned to Stockholm on his bicycle. The entire trip took one year. This is his account of his training, preparation, and accomplishment of the most self-sufficient combined approach and climb of Mt. Everest ever. Kropp has a tremendous zest for life and has been mountain climbing since he was a child. His philosophy is to approach the mountains on their own terms.