![]() This title is part of our LEGENDS AND LORE series. Loretan writes, knowing that what he is about to share is terrible, that he felt no joy on hearing his friend's voice because rescue was impossible in so remote a place. ![]() ![]() Loretan called out to what he assumed would be a corpse. ALSO BY DAVID ROBERTS No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks (with Ed Viesturs) Sandstone Spine: Seeking the Anasazi on the First. He writes with humor, often deprecating his own accomplishments, and he is shockingly honest: On Cho Oyu, for instance, his climbing partner, Pierre-Alain Steiner, fell hundreds of meters. David Roberts, author of several titles including Sandstone Spine, Moments of Doubt and On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined. An influential climber, Loretan's story has never before been told in English. He also became one of only a handful of individuals to climb Everest via the Hornbein Couloir he and Jean Troillet completed the roundtrip climb in only 43 hours. /rebates/2fp2fSandstone-Spine2fRoberts-David2fL808326314&.com252fp252fSandstone-Spine252fRoberts-David252fL80832631426afsrc3d126SID3d&idbooksamillion&nameBOOKSAMILLION. New foreword by bestselling writer David Roberts On October 5, 1995, Erhard Loretan became the third person to climb all fourteen 8000-meter peaks, and the second to climb them without supplemental oxygen. ![]() Loretan is often credited with bringing fast-and-light style to the highest mountains ![]()
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