John K’s book should be mandatory reading for anyone attempting an Everest climb. The authenticity of emotion JK spills onto the pages of this book, regardless

John K’s book should be mandatory reading for anyone attempting an Everest climb. The authenticity of emotion JK spills onto the pages of this book, regardless of how well or otherwise it portrays certain people, including himself is just moving. Here’s a man clearly traumatised by this most harrowing sequence of events and when begged by his editors to “sleep on it” for a few months before he writes anything he responds with a “no. I dont want time to blunt my recollection.” At the beginning of the book the highlights an exchange he had with his wife at the airport as he departs to Kathmandu, the background being the relationship was severely strained by his obsession with climbing. He says “Don’t be melodramatic, I’m not gonna die”.