The book is at once an inspiring narrative of triumph over trauma and a spiritual guide for how to accomplish such a thing. Davidson and his team were trapped at nearly 20,000 feet, unable to reach higher ground or descend to safety.ĭavidson spent two years putting his experiences into words. Other avalanches slid down the West Shoulder, a ridge above the Khumbu Icefall that stands at around 23,000 feet between basecamp and Camp One. The camp was destroyed, overrun by ice debris. One avalanche tumbled down the side of Pumori, a 23,494-foot behemoth of a peak that overlooks the basecamp used by the IMG climbing expedition that year. On that day, the earth underneath the world’s tallest mountain range shifted, scraped, and resettled, triggering a series of massive avalanches in the Upper Kumbu Valley along the route used by climbers to summit Everest from the Nepali side. The earthquake was equally tragic in the high country. Nearly 9,000 people died in Nepal, with scores more injured and devastation rocking the nation from the capital city, Kathmandu, to the countryside. Nepal hadn’t seen an earthquake of that magnitude in 81 years. “‘Should I never even go climbing again?’” “‘Should I go back to Nepal?’” Davidson tells us he asked himself in the earthquake’s long and painful aftermath.
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