Kid Who Climbed Everest : The Incredible Story of a 23-Year-Old's Summit of Mt. Everest

In 1996, a twenty-three-year-old soldier in the British Army was flying over an African desert on a routine parachute jump.

He had a lot to look forward to-a long career ahead of him in the army, a beautiful girlfriend back home.

But those dreams were cut short when his parachute failed to open at eleven thousand feet.

He had cracked three vertebrae and come within a fraction of severing his spinal cord.

A grueling eight months of physical therapy followed.

Bear had to retrain his muscles to do all of the things we take for granted-how to sit, stand, walk, even breathe.

Eighteen months after his accident he overcame incredible odds to reach the peak of Everest.

THE KID WHO CLIMBED EVEREST is a tale of courage and determination.

Bear's quest for funding for his expedition, his seventy days on Everest's southeast face, and a narrow brush with death after a fall into a crevasse at nineteen thousand feet, make the story an essential read for anyone who's ever had a dream and made it come true.