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Title	:	Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey
Author	:	Göran Kropp
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	October 5th 1999 by Discovery Books (first published 1997)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Sports. Mountaineering. Adventure. Travel. Climbing. Biography. Survival

Ultimate High: My Everest Odyssey

Göran Kropp

Hardcover | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 412 Users | 43 Reviews

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Goran Kropp, a Swedish adventurer, set out from Stockholm, Sweden on a Crescent Ultima bicycle and traveled 5 months and 8,000 miles carrying 240 lbs. of gear with him. He ascended Mt. Everest in May 1996, unassisted and without the use of supplemental oxygen, days after the tragedy that claimed 8 climbers. He then returned to Stockholm on his bicycle. The entire trip took one year. This is his account of his training, preparation, and accomplishment of the most self-sufficient combined approach and climb of Mt. Everest ever. Kropp has a tremendous zest for life and has been mountain climbing since he was a child. His philosophy is to approach the mountains on their own terms.

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ISBN:	156331830X (ISBN13: 9781563318306)

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What an amazing story. This book sparked my love for mountaineering books (I know, it's Into Thin Air for most people). He does such a great job of explaining the complexities of his journey, emotionally as well as logistically. I appreciate that he doesn't really paint himself as a hero, and points out his own faults and failures along the way. My only (minor) complaint about this book is that I wish he provided more information about the bike ride! Although I imagine that was an entirely

On the surface of it, a guy who wants to cycle from Sweden to Nepal, climb Mount Everest unaided and without oxygen, then cycle back to Sweden, sounds like a self obsessed nutter! Perhaps some people who read this book will agree that he was that, and more. For most people, the travel or the climb are outwith their capabilities, never mind combining both along with strict rules about only using food he has bought or brought himself, carrying all his own gear and finding a solo route through the

This is the 3rd book I've read that is about climbing Mt Everest during the tragic 1996 season. Goran Kropp had a different perspective on climbing, and was trying to get back to the roots of it all without the massive expeditions. He decided to go on his own power from Sweden to the top of Everest and back again; on a bike, without supplemental oxygen, without sherpas, etc. In addition to the climbing, you can imagine he has quite a journey just traveling there from Sweden by bike so it is a

I liked his book. It really held my attention! I liked his little stories he told at base camp. He also described climbing in first person. Now I know how hard the sport of mountaineering really is. Mountaineering takes training and hard work. I liked how he told us all of the different ways he worked out. This is a great and inspiring book. I reccomment it to anyone who likes action books.

Goran Kropp was an up and coming in the who's whom of the climbing world. His story is so unbelievable in parts,.. that one can only grip the edge of ones seat white knuckled and begin to breath again only after he'd overcome his obstacles. Goran passed away not long after writing this; a grand adventure gone awry. Makes the celebrating of his brief life all the more endearing in the reading of Ultimate High.

This guy is crazy, and his adventure is so much fun to read about.

This book illuminates the impulses that drive people to make decisions, against their better judgment, that may well kill them. An interesting study of some elements of human nature, I suppose, but I found it troubling to see the lengths that people will go to in order to summit at Everest.