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From the smoking volcanoes of South America to the great snowy ranges of the Himalaya, The White Ladder follows a cast of extraordinary characters--conquistadors and captains, scientists and surveyors, alpinists and adventurers--up the slopes of the world's highest peaks. A masterpiece of edge-of-your-seat narrative history, The White Ladder describes the epic rise of mountaineering's world altitude record, a story of ever higher climbs by figures great and small of mountaineering. Daniel Light describes how climbers used revolutionary techniques to launch themselves into the most forbidding conditions. The expeditions illustrate evolutionary changes in climbing style, the advancement of high-altitude science, and the development of mountain climbing as an industry. Throughout, Light pays special attention to Incan climbers, Gurkha guides, Sherpa mountaineers, and many others who are often overlooked. He offers nuanced new perspectives on familiar characters, including Fanny Bullock Workman, Aleister Crowley, and Oscar Eckenstein. A story of innovation, invention, and determination, this book immerses listeners in a fascinating historical period. With their breathtaking exploits, these climbers laid the groundwork for the historic ascents of K2 and Everest that came after--and heightened the spectacle of their dangerous sport.

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Daniel Light has been climbing for twenty years indoors and out. The White Ladder is his first book. He lives in London, UK. An experienced and award-winning actor, narrator, and singer with a degree in German literature, Richard Trinder trained at London's prestigious Poor School and has worked on stage, screen, and behind the microphone for nearly thirty years. His theater work has ranged from classical leading roles to pantomime dame, and most things in-between. On screen he has been a Harry Potter movie villain, fought alongside Doctor Who, smoldered as various soap-opera love interests, and appeared in over fifty TV commercials. He was the leading man in London's West End production of Mamma Mia! the musical for nine years. With an authoritative, fluent, and expressive style, his audiobook credits include AudioFile Earphones Award-winning history, Costa Prize literary fiction, romance, biography, and sci-fi for many major publishing houses.

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