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Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred
Thomas Gallagher
Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
Jenny K. Blake
When in French: Love in a Second Language
Lauren Collins
Beyond the Job Description: How Managers and Employees Can Navigate the True Demands of the Job
Jesse Sostrin
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
David Hubel, Margaret S. Livingstone
Achieving Your Potential As A Photographer: A Creative Companion and Workbook
Harold Davis
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
Sherry Turkle
Picture Perfect Practice: A Self-Training Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Taking World-Class Photographs (Voices That Matter)
Roberto Valenzuela
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl, Harold S. Kushner
Terms of Service: Social Media and the Price of Constant Connection
Jacob Silverman

Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest

Dead Lucky: Life After Death on Mount Everest - Lincoln Hall Mostly very interesting.Lincoln Halls' summit of Everest in 2006, when several other people died, although not in his party.Nothing really dramatic goes wrong after the summit. But Lincoln develops cerebral edema and cannot get down. The sherpas end up living him exposed on the mountain, assumed dead. He survives the night, and comes down the next day in a harrowing experience with 2 sherpas who terrorize him, until they join a larger group of sherpas.Lincoln talks a lot about his hallucinations, his states of mind, and his experience with mediation in recounting the story. Last sentence: In this new light I see the best thing about having climbed Mt. Everest is not so much having done it but more the fact that now I don't have to do it. No longer do I have that unfinished business, and I can move on. p.274