Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their 'next Everest' in life. But this story is not about 'conquering' the world's highest peak. One of Atlas & Boots Top 10 Adventure Travel Books of 2021 A dramatic account of the deadly earthquake on Everestand a return to reach the summit. Davidson's background in geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain why the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their next Everest in life. Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. The Next Everest by Jim Davidson /5 This nonfiction chronicles Davidsons story, which jumps between his childhood helping his father out with painting jobs, different climbs he has gone on, and the story of the Nepal Earthquake in 2015. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit. The experience left him shaken, and despite his thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn't sure that he would ever go back. Everest in 2017, survived earthquakes & avalanches there in 2015. Jim Davidson is a lifetime climber and expedition leader, spending over thirty years of his life pursuing the tallest peaks this Earth has to offer. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain.Īfter spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet.