{"product_id":"will-to-climb-book-ed-viesturs-9780307720436","title":"The Will to Climb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNo Shortcuts to the Top \u003c\/i\u003echronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eor attempted\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003ethe ascent\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a high school student, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog's famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world's 14 highest peaks in the late 1980s, Viesturs looked forward with trepidation to undertaking Annapurna himself. Two failures to summit in 2000 and 2002 made Annapurna his nemesis. His successful 2005 ascent was the triumphant capstone of his climbing quest. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Climb\u003c\/i\u003e Viesturs and co-author David Roberts bring the extraordinary challenges of Annapurna to vivid life through edge-of-your-seat accounts of the greatest climbs in the mountain's history, and of his own failed attempts and eventual success. In the process Viesturs ponders what Annapurna reveals about some of our most fundamental moral and spiritual questions--questions, he believes, that we need to answer to lead our lives well.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49546438082833,"sku":"GOR009363933","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50348409913617,"sku":"CIN0307720438G","price":4.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51000800936209,"sku":"NIN9780307720436","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51716022731025,"sku":"CIN0307720438VG","price":5.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52123126890769,"sku":"NLS9780307720436","price":22.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0307720438.jpg?v=1751447107","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/will-to-climb-book-ed-viesturs-9780307720436","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}