Joe Tasker was a British mountaineer who was among the most talented and daring climbers of his generation before his death on Everest in 1982. Everest the Cruel Way is his gripping account of an attempt on the mountain's fearsome West Ridge in winter. Tasker's audiobooks and books are classics of mountaineering literature, written with honesty, intensity, and a climber's eye for the beauty and danger of high altitude.
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