Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest Audiobook (Free)

My eyes lifted towards the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest.

Everest, the mountain of my child years dreams. A hill that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen a huge selection of instances in photos and movies but under no circumstances in real life.

In April 2018, seasoned adventurer Ben Fogle and Olympic cycling precious metal medallist Victoria Pendleton, along with mountaineer Kenton Great, took on their most exhausting challenge yet – about Up: My Life’s Journey to the very best of Everest climbing Everest for the United kingdom Red Cross to highlight environmentally friendly challenges mountains face. It might be harrowing and exhilarating in equivalent measure because they walked the fine line between lifestyle and death 8,000 metres above ocean level.

For Ben, the seven-week expedition into the loss of life zone was to become the adventure of an eternity, and a humbling and enlightening trip. For his wife Marina, keeping the family jointly at home, it was an agonising await news. Jointly, they dedicated the experience to their boy, Willem Fogle, stillborn at eight a few months.

Cradling small Willem to state goodbye, Ben and Marina produced a guarantee to live brightly. To accept every day. To often smile. To be positive and to motivate. And from the depths of their grief and dedication, Ben’s Everest fantasy was born.

Up, from here the only way was Up.

Part memoir, component thrilling adventure, Ben and Marina’s account of his ascent towards the roof from the globe is told using their signature humour and friendliness, as well as with profound compassion.