No Shortcuts To The Top

Climbing The World’s 14 Highest Peaks

This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme
mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a
time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand
atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled
oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become
the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest.