About the Book
On June 21, 1992, two best friends summited Mount Rainier. Within hours, their exquisite accomplishment would be overshadowed by tragedy. On their descent, Jim Davidson fell through an ice bridge on Rainier's northeast flank, plunging eighty feet into a narrow crevasse inside the Emmons Glacier and dragging Mike Price in after him. Mike fell to his death; Jim, badly injured and armed with minimal gear, faced an almost impossible climb back out of the crevasse, up a nearly vertical ice wall. Mourning his friend's death, he miraculously climbed out of the crevasse and lived to relate his experiences. Told in parallel narratives of the tragedy and the climbers' lives, The Ledge is both a riveting, wrenching story and an inspirational adventure tale.
About the Author :
Jim Davidson is an accomplished climber, speaker, and science writer. Since 1982, he has climbed across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Formerly an environmental geologist, he is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure and has spoken to more than 30,000 people across the United States and overseas. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children. Jim Davidson is an accomplished climber, speaker, and science writer. Since 1982, he has climbed across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Formerly an environmental geologist, he is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure and has spoken to more than 30,000 people across the United States and overseas. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children. Jim Davidson is an accomplished climber, speaker, and science writer. Since 1982, he has climbed across the United States and been on high-altitude expeditions to Alaska, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Mexico, Nepal, and Tibet. Formerly an environmental geologist, he is now a professional speaker with Speaking of Adventure and has spoken to more than 30,000 people across the United States and overseas. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, with his wife and two children. Kevin Vaughan, senior reporter at the I-News Network, is an award-winning journalist and author. Over his twenty-five-year career he has written for the Fort Morgan Times, the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Rocky Mountain News, and the Denver Post and has covered some of the state's biggest stories, including the tragedy at Columbine High School, Colorado's horrific wildfire season of 2002, and the Colorado Rockies' 2007 World Series run. He is a 1986 graduate of Metropolitan State College, and his work has been honored numerous times. His 2007 Rocky Mountain News series, "The Crossing," which examined the lifelong reverberations of Colorado's worst traffic accident, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. He is the coauthor with Jim Davidson of the best-seller The Ledge: An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier.
Review :
Davidson and journalist Vaughn have crafted a modern Aristotelian tragedy.-- "Publishers Weekly"
"A modern Aristotelian tragedy."
-- "Publishers Weekly"
"The Ledge is a moving portrait of friendship and loss."
-- "Wall Street Journal"
