the chomolungma diaries

A quick message to announce something that I know some of you will have been waiting for as eagerly as when you used to wonder what colour socks your gran was knitting you for Christmas. Yes, that’s right, I’ve narrated my first audiobook!

At the end of last year, I mentioned that I would be slowing down the blog to concentrate on other writing projects. In case you’d forgotten I exist or were wondering if I’d boarded the Mars probe for an attempt

When I published The Chomolungma Diaries in 2012, there were very few books about climbing Everest written from the perspective of a commercial client. Now there are several and one runaway success has been Ascent into Hell by Fergus White.

For those of you who still prefer the waft of ink on the page, and have steered clear of reading any of my travel diaries because they’re only available in digital format, you no longer have an excuse for not reading them.

The journal of my expedition to climb Everest from the north side in 2012 is currently available COMPLETELY FREE in most of the main online bookstores. It’s a no-brainer – download it while you can!

Since Jon Krakauer’s seminal disaster porn classic Into Thin Air came out in 1997 publishers have flocked to release books about mountaineering disasters, but every time I see a new book like this I can’t help wishing they had never been published. Why? For me there are two reasons.

This time last year I was lying in a tent on the north side of Everest, listening to a deafening wind pound against the nylon beside my head. Every spring a few hundred people seek to share my experience by trying to climb Everest, and thanks to the miracle of modern communications, it’s possible to watch from the sidelines.

If you type the word Everest into the books category on Amazon.com, here’s what you get: 4 teen novels about a group of backstabbing teenagers competing to become the youngest person to climb Everest 1 worst-case scenario teen adventure book

The Chomolungma Diaries

Move over Jim Dale, there’s a new audiobook narrator in town

The Chomolungma Varieties: struggles of an apprentice audiobook narrator

Ascent Into Hell by Fergus White: An authentic account of climbing Everest

The Chomolungma Diaries now available as a paperback

I’m giving The Chomolungma Diaries away FREE, and here’s why

Don’t be fooled by disaster porn

Following the Everesters

Why most books about Everest are irrelevant (but not all of them)