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Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest Hardcover – January 6, 2001

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Imagine climbing Mt. Everest with no Sherpa assistance. Purposefully abstaining also from bottled oxygen, computers, and radios, while establishing an historic new route. In 1988, American climber Ed Webster's 4-man team achieved this ultimate Everest ascent, years before the Into Thin Air tragedy. Now delve into Webster's 5-Star reader-rated Everest classic, Snow in the Kingdom, illustrated by 100 pages of stunning color photographs. ( Or sneak preview "Everest The Really Hard Way" at youtube.com/watch?v=zjAHkTHn4fA )


Almost 30 years ago, in a climbing style never seen again on Everest, four partners from America, Canada, and England pioneered a super-dangerous new route (the Neverest Buttress) up the avalanche-blasted precipices of the remote, nearly forgotten Kangshung East Face of Mt. Everest in Tibet. Perhaps most remarkably, not wanting to endanger the lives of any Sherpas, the climbers carried every ounce of gear and food themselves. Only one person summited. This small team's indomitable willpower to succeed, their bravery, mutual trust, and teamwork have become legendary. But days without food plus severe frostbite were the painful prices of victory and survival.
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"...Webster's powerfully written Snow in the Kingdom escapes being swallowed in the [Everest] deluge ... is meticulously researched and emotionally charged." -- Rock & Ice Magazine, Feb/March, 2001

"Emotionally charged ... (the book is) an examination of Webster's soul, rather than a simple story of a great climb." -- Joe Simpson, High Mountain Sports, England, December 2001

"Engrossing and detailed writing, candid introspection, generous color photography ... It belongs on the shelf among the great annals of mountain literature." -- Don Mellor, GORP.com, May 10, 2001

"Much more than a climbing book, Snow In The Kingdom is about the making of a man. [Reading] the do-or-die summit push it was impossible to put the book down." -- Thom Pollard, EverestNews.com, May 17, 2001

"Snow in the Kingdom dazzles the eye as much as the imagination ... Heroic, upbeat, and powerful." -- Midwest Book Review, October 2001

"This miraculous account of struggle and survival rivets the reader to discover what the fate of these friends will be." -- Rain Taxi literary review, Autumn, 2001

"Webster's most intriguing claim is that seven-year-old Tenzing Norgay may have met George Mallory ... whose body was discovered last year." -- The Observer, London, Dec. 24, 2000

"the strongest [book] of its sort since Touching the Void. Perhaps a closer comparison is Herzog s Annapurna." -- SECOND PLACE Winner, 2001 Boardman-Tasker Mountain Literature Prize, London.

FINALIST, Mountain Literature catagory -- 2001 Banff Mountain Book Festival, Banff, Canada

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Physical Description: 6 x 9.25 inches, hard back, color laminated dust jacket, 580 pages printed on high-quality coated paper. Also included are 150 pages of color photographs, 282 black and white photos, maps of Asia and the Tibetan Plateau, 3 climbing route maps of Everest’s three faces, and 8 Everest climbing route photo-diagrams.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mountain Imagery; First Edition (January 6, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 72 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0965319911
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0965319911
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.55 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.75 x 1.25 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 320 ratings

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Ed Webster

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Did you know that American Mt. Everest climber and author Ed Webster (whose father was from London) is one of just three mountaineers cited in the board game Trivial Pursuit? The other two are Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Webster's most notable accomplishment was ascending a new route up Mt. Everest's Kangshung Face in Tibet in 1988, which his International 4-man team (USA, Canada, UK) achieved with no bottled oxygen, radios, or even Sherpa assistance on the mountain. Not wanting to risk any Sherpa injuries or deaths, the team carried every ounce of gear and food themselves.

FOR a PREVIEW, Webster’s EVEREST LECTURE VIDEO is on YouTube. PART ONE https://youtu.be/zjAHkTHn4fA PART TWO https://youtu.be/0cR4jwqLFCI

Rock climber, Himalayan climber, and author-photographer ED WEBSTER (b.1956 in Boston, now living in Maine, USA) had his first magazine article and photos published in Climbing Magazine at age 17 in 1973. In the last four decades, fifty of his articles and hundreds of his stunning images have been published worldwide in magazines as diverse as Alpinist, MOUNTAIN, Sports Illustrated, National Geographic Adventure, Popular Mechanics, and Rolling Stone.

Webster's photos have graced a multitude of renowned mountain books, such as Everest - Into The Silence, Himalayan Alpine-Style, 50 Classic Climbs of North America, Everest the Best Writing and Photographs, Alone at the Summit, Beyond the Vertical, CLIMB!, and many more.

His five books are: three editions of the classic guidebook, Rock Climbs in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (1982, 1986, and 1996), Climbing in the Magic Islands, to the Lofoten Islands of Arctic Norway (1994), and his best-selling "Everest-years" autobiography, Snow in the Kingdom, My Storm Years on Everest (2000) which has earned a solid 5-star Reader Rating on Amazon.

He is the recipient of the American Mountain Foundation's 1988 Seventh Grade Award for outstanding achievements in mountaineering; the American Alpine Club's 1990 Literary Award; and American Alpine Club's highest honor, the David H. Soules Award, for saving the life of a fellow climber, in 1994. Ed Webster's expeditions have taken him to Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, Bhutan, and Mongolia.

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CalifCats
5.0 out of 5 stars Astonishingly good, and you don't have to be a climber or extreme athlete to appreciate this story.
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2017
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I loved this book. I will never climb a rock or a mountain and I hate being cold. But this tale of why and how extreme climbers and mountaineers undertake the challenges that take them to very edge of life was compelling, inspiring and beautiful. Webster's chronology, which starts well before his first Himalayan experience sets the stage and is almost as interesting as his description of the Kangshung/ Neverest climb. This story highlights so many lessons for life: the importance of working with people that you truly trust, achieving agreement not only on the shared goals but on ethics and values, making a team stronger than the sum of its parts, and knowing when to push forward at all costs ...and when to retreat. Webster's reflections on how these extreme experiences affect and change people are thought provoking.

Most interestingly, when you read or watch other accounts of this expedition (and you will want to, the story is that riveting) you will find that there is no disagreement among the team-members as to how things happened. They may emphasize different parts of the story, but they seem to give credit where credit is due, and that may also be unique in the annals of mountaineering literature. That is another testament to the integrity of the members of this team, and to Webster's retelling of their adventure.

So while this book is a page-turner, it is also fodder for reflection about what is important in one's own life. And finally, the photos are fantastic. Although they can be enlarged in the kindle edition, I think I might be purchasing the hardbound edition to really see this photos as they should be seen.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Long but mostly good book on an Everest expedition
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2023
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No matter which peak, which path, or how many are in the climbing party, there is always an element of danger is such an expedition. This book by Ed Webster brings to life one such trek, when he and three other climbers reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the spring of 1988. This was accomplished without bottled oxygen, assistance from Sherpas, or radios. Webster’s account of this expedition on a new path to the top, along with stories from before that Everest climb (it was his third attempt to reach the summit) that make the a very good read for the most part.

I say “most part” because there times the book feels like it is moving slower than a novice climber on their first Himalayan climb. This is especially true when Webster describes his previous climbs before his famous 1988 trekking. The book also moves along slowly at times durian the Everest climb although that helped readers to understand the slow pace, and the danger, these climbers faced.

Two parts of the book I really liked were the descent after reaching the summit and the photography. While reaching the peak for any climb is undoubtedly the goal and is often dangerous, often the descent back to Base Camp is just as risky. In Webster’s case, that was certainly true. The terrifying ordeal the team went through on the descent, with frostbitten toes and fingers that eventually were amputated as a result, was a more gripping account of climbing than the journey to the highest peak in the world was.

Even though I read this in e-book format, the photography was stunning, especially the color photographs. Whether it was the beauty of the mountains, happy pictures of Webster and others (including a few of Lauren, his girlfriend who was killed in a rock climb accompanying Webster) or photos of the climbers on the mountain or back in camp, they all help to tell the story of this very intriguing climb of Mt. Everest.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2014
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Ed Webster writes one of the very best Everest books in Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest. It's got pretty much everything an Everest reader could ask for: difficult routes, fancy climbing, large teams, small teams, solo climbing, run-ins with famous climbers, newly-discovered Everest history, great photographs, triumph, tragedy, ultra-present danger, even the love interest that critics demanded for the 1924 climb. Webster chronicles his three expeditions to Everest in the 1980s---first a pre-monsoon West Ridge Direct climb via Nepal in 1985 under Dave Saas and Jim Bridwell with a large American team, next he accompanies Roger Marshall to Tibet in 1986 to photograph and chronicle Marshall's monsoon-season solo attempt, and lastly he participates in the 1988 pre-monsoon four-person ascent of the Kangshung Face.

There's a lot going on around Everest while Webster is climbing, and he's gregarious enough to talk to the many people around him. In 1985 he plays poker with Arne Naess (Drommen om Everest), Dick Bass (Seven Summits), and Chris Bonington (The Everest Years) and gets advice from David Breashears (High Exposure). In 1986 he has a front-row seat for Erhard Loretan (Den Bergen Verfallen) and Jean Troillet's night-naked ascent of the Supercouloir, hangs out with British climbing legends Brummie Stokes (Soldiers and Sherpas), Joe Brown, and Mo Anthoine (Feeding the Rat), and gets to know the Chileans. In one telling scene, he accompanies Rodrigo Jordan Fuchs (El Desafio de un Sueno) to the Raphiu La to look over the Kangshung Face---both would later climb it. Though his 1988 climb is characterized by its remote location, he still meets Tenzing Norgay's extended family and visits Tenzing's boyhood home.

I love how the stories build upon one another. The first climb is pretty much the standard Everest West Ridge narrative---we're a big team, we climbed the shoulder, then weather and/or interpersonal conflict finished us off before we could mount a serious summit bid. (See Tasker's Everest: The Cruel Way or Roskelley's Stories Off the Wall for additional examples.) Webster does have some personal business to attend to, and the climb is an exciting, if conflict-ridden introduction to high-altitude. The next is a more laid-back assignment, but Webster gets a chance to be himself, climb by himself (all the way up Changtse), without any pressure to impress any sponsors. Things don't always go well with Marshall, but with Marshall such is to be expected.

The last climb is really the grand show---an amazing adventure that I feel fortunate to read about. If anybody topped Reinhold Messner's solo climb without supplemental oxygen (The Crystal Horizon) as far as expanding the limits of the possible on Everest, it was this crew---Robert Anderson, Paul Teare, Stephen Venables, and Ed Webster. They climbed a new and difficult route, including technical rock and ice climbing, wallowed through deep snow for thousands of feet, and had enough energy in reserve for three climbers to make a serious try at the summit, sans supplemental oxygen. Their summit climb is followed by a harrowing descent, during which the energy spent on their way up nearly prevents anyone's return.

The book has a number of features in addition. Webster's photographs appear throughout the narrative, including several sections of color images. His bibliography is extensive and subdivided into categories. My favorite feature is his annotated index, that includes note only page references, but a description of the subject, and a list under each heading of the many Everest expeditions of the climbers mentioned.

For a different, and also well-written perspective of the 1988 climb, see Venables' Everest: Kangshung Face.
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Marion C.
5.0 out of 5 stars We had Ed as a Speaker and Loving His Book
Reviewed in Canada on February 28, 2021
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I am enjoying this book and was lucky enough to have him as our guest speaker for Sedona Westerners in January. Great read.
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David Barker
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a classic mountaineering book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 30, 2021
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This book is really worth reading. At the basic level, it is the story of the author’s adventures on Everest, culminating in his participation in one of the truly remarkable alpine ascents of a new route to the South Col via the Kangshung Face by an unsupported team of 4. That they got down again was due in no small measure to the author finding some motivation deep within himself. But it is more than a Boys’ Own adventure story. It is a deeply human story in the respect that a personal tragedy, movingly described early in the book, puts in context all that follows, and perhaps explains some of it. I am an armchair mountaineering nut and have over 150 books on the subject, but I think this is my favourite. I have owned it and cherished it for many years but continue to buy it for my friends from time to time
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Sushrut Khaladkar
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Exhilarating Narration
Reviewed in India on September 3, 2020
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Wonderful book to read for Mountaineering lovers! Excellently worded and superbly narrated. Hats off tot the courage of Ed Webster and his colleagues!!
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U.R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book
Reviewed in Germany on November 6, 2015
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Very well written and with loads of pictures. Actually I first bought the kindle edition and after having read it, I had to order the "real" book because of the pictures. Was worth it. If you have one of the Kindle's with color screen, you will be happy with the Kindle version alone.
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5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2023
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Old but a very good read highlighting the extreme dangers of high altitude mountaineering. Highly recommend this book to all ages.
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