While he doesn't dispute Krakauer'sĪccount, he feels lucky, not guilty, for being granted a chance to re-evaluate his life. Michaud, Weathers proves an easy raconteur, relating the trek, his recovery and, unfortunately, a tedious autobiography. In ''Left for Dead,'' written with Stephen G. Of Weathers's ''sketchy'' skills, his novice's choice of footwear, even his right-wing politics Weathers, who'd paid $65,000, became the poster boy for everything wrong with guided Jon Krakauer, in his acclaimed book ''Into Thin Air,'' complained He nation's first glimpse of Seaborn Beck Weathers, survivor of the notorious 1996 Everest expeditions, was a pathetic sight: bandaged mittsįor hands, blackened cheeks and an overcooked marshmallow of a nose, all from severe frostbite. Beck Weathers paid a lot of money to climb Everest, and somehow lived to tell the tale.īy Beck Weathers with Stephen G.
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