Aftershock: One Man's Quest and the Quake on Everest Piano or why it got started

or why it got started

and additional drawings by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (from "Lettres a l'inconnue")

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Each reading is paired with a relevant scripture selection

Arthur Lydiard

Aftershock: One Man's Quest and the Quake on Everest Piano or why it got startedJules Mountain is a survivor. The odds of surviving his type of cancer were one in five. The odds of dying on Everest are one in 60, but these are severely shortened when factoring in an avalanche triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Jules lived to tell both tales, which he does in a way that conveys the agony and euphoria that extreme adventurers face, even when things go according to plan. And yet this is not merely an account of what happened in