![]() Haunted by survivor's guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder, Filippi explains how life on the brink of death can change someone. In a book marked by adventure and tragedy, Filippi dissects what it takes to get to the top of the world, and what that quest takes out of you. The Escapist is an unflinching account of extreme feats and devastating loss that takes readers to the highest peaks on six continents and into the deepest valleys of the human soul. Sometimes the alteration is physical, but more often it's buried within. In The Escapist, Filippi proves an old axiom true: no climber returns from a summit the same person as when he began his ascent. ![]() ![]() But sometimes survival comes with a price. ![]() From a Taliban attack on a mountainside in northern Pakistan that felled ten of his climbing companions to the deadliest disaster in Everest's history, Filippi has survived again and again. ![]() In the course of 20 years spent scaling the highest peaks in the world, Filippi has repeatedly cheated death. A close encounter in a childhood swimming pool left him terrified of the depths, but he had no idea that it was the heights of this world that would eventually call him-and threaten his life over and over again. As a young boy growing up in Lac-Mégantic, Gabriel Filippi lived in fear of drowning. ![]()
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