The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World's highest Mountains (by Gabriel Filippi)
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Two decades on the world's highest, most dangerous peaks
The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World's Highest Mountains is written by Canadian mountaineer Gabriel Filippi with journalist Brett Popplewell. Filippi, from Lac-Megantic in Quebec, has spent twenty years climbing on six continents, including two ascents of Everest and climbs of K2 and Nanga Parbat.
The memoir recounts a series of close calls across his climbing career, among them surviving an attack in ...
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Two decades on the world's highest, most dangerous peaks
The Escapist: Cheating Death on the World's Highest Mountains is written by Canadian mountaineer Gabriel Filippi with journalist Brett Popplewell. Filippi, from Lac-Megantic in Quebec, has spent twenty years climbing on six continents, including two ascents of Everest and climbs of K2 and Nanga Parbat.
The memoir recounts a series of close calls across his climbing career, among them surviving an attack in Pakistan and the chaos of the 2015 Everest earthquake, alongside the harder decisions mountaineering forces, including turning back within reach of a summit to protect fellow climbers. Alongside the expedition accounts, Filippi is candid about the psychological toll of repeated brushes with death, including survivor's guilt and the strain placed on his family.
Suited to readers of adventure and survival memoirs who want more than a straightforward summit story.
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