From Everest to Enlightenment - An Adventure of the Soul [Paperback]

Alan Hobson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 1999

If youve read Into Thin Air, youve got to read this! Its another side of Everest, a spiritually uplifting true story about how an ordinary man achieved his greatest dream and how you can achieve yours. This is the inspirational story of how world adventurer, Adventrepreneur , and professional speaker, Alan Hobson, took the failure of two previous expeditions to Mount Everest and turned them into a resounding personal triumph a year after the 1996 Everest disaster. No one dies, but a few truly live. Over 40 stunning color photographs, hundreds of inspirational quotations. Guaranteed to leave you breathless!

Editorial Reviews

Review

One of the most engaging books I have ever readso honest, so human and so real. In a class by itself. -- Leslie Miller, Canada

Truly inspiring! Today I began training for my first marathon as a result of this book. -- Chuck Warich, Boston, MA

About the Author

Alan Hobson, is fast establishing himself as one of the worlds leading adventurers. A former journalist and All-American gymnast, together with his former colleague, Jamie Clarke, he has created a unique niche for himself as an entrepreneur/adventurer, or Adventrepreneur.

A winner of the William Randolph Hearst Award for excellence in news writing, and the author of five books, he made Canadian communications history in 1991 with Jamie by putting the first live Canadian telephone reports off Everest via satellite. For this remarkable achievement, he was nominated for the highest honor that can be bestowed on a Canadian civilian, the Order of Canada.

Alan is a full-time professional speaker/adventurer and makes between 60 and 100 presentations every year all over the world. His long list of clients and expedition sponsors includes some of the globes biggest and most successful companies, among them Kodak, Johnson & Johnson, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, J.P. Morgan, Mobil Oil, Sony and many more Fortune 100 and 500 organization.

In his lifetime, Alan has been a marathon runner, hand glider pilot, white water kayaker, white water rafter, ice climber, rock climber, parachutist, luger and bobsleigh participant. His latest passions are mountain biking and scuba diving. He has dived beneath the ice of frozen mountain lakes in the dead of the Canadian winter, visited sunken wrecks in Lake Geneva, and executed numerous night dives in the frigid and turbulent waters of the north Atlantic. By 2003, in a submersible, he hopes to explore the deepest point in the ocean, The Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench. It is about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific Island of Guam, near the Philippines. At 36,000 feet deep, it is deeper than Everest is high, by over a mile. This will make Alan the first person in history to have visited the highest and lowest points on the surface of the Earth, literally the world from top to bottom.

My life mission is to create a legacy of inspiration that will empower other to go after their dreams, says the best-selling author, "and in so doing, touch the boundlessness of their true potential.

Friends describe Alan as passionate, focused, energetic and warm. He lives in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, just east of his favorite playground, the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Inner Everests Inc; 2nd Rep edition (September 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0968526306
• ISBN-13: 978-0968526309
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,764,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From Everest to Enlightenment, November 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: From Everest to Enlightenment - An Adventure of the Soul (Paperback)

The book shares many human lessons learned from achieving one of the greatest creations on earth, climbing Mt. Everest. The book talks about challenges, goals, facing adversity, and humanity. I highly recommend the book, of such great adventure.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and Thought Provoking, August 30, 2000

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DailoFan (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From Everest to Enlightenment - An Adventure of the Soul (Paperback)

In a very honest and human way, Hobson brings the reader into both the phsical challenges of Everest and the even tougher challenges of being a human. I found the book helped me to get things refocused on what is truly important to me.

5.0 out of 5 stars BREATHTAKING, July 28, 2009

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Geo E. Kokkinis "George kokkinis" (Crete, Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From Everest to Enlightenment - An Adventure of the Soul (Paperback)

It's an inspirational guide showing that everyone reaps what he or she sows. Not just on Everest but on every turn of life. An apocalyptic, honest and insightful diary of how Alan achieved awareness. Everest is just a means to reach into his own soul. Why not into ours too?