Musings on Spiritual Matters

I love the show “Man vs. Wild.”  The star of the show is Bear Grylls.  As I was looking through the local book store, I noticed this book by Bear about climbing Everest.  I love two things, Bear’s survival in the harsh conditions and Everest stories.  It seemed like a book I would love.  The book starts with a little background information.  Bear (which is a nickname) was in Britain’s special forces.  But an accident in which bear was parachuting out of the plane, and his parachute did not open completely and he broke his back; this caused him to get out of the military.  He was doing little until he was asked to climb Everest.  This was his motivation to start life again.  The book journeys into the heart of the high country.  This is dangerous territory, and a unforgiving landscape.  The account is interesting and scary at times.  There are close calls, sickness, and weather that is going to stop everything.  But in the end, Bear makes it.  He was the youngest Briton to do so.  Though I might never climb Everest, these books always provide for me some powerful inspiration to climb the mountains that I travel.  Bear is the man!

Related posts:

1. Review of “Dark Summit”
2. Review of “High Crimes”
3. Review of “Into Thin Air”
4. Review of “Prophet of Purpose”
5. Review of “K2″

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