Above the Clouds, Kilian Jornet
Above the Clouds, Kilian Jornet
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Above the Clouds
How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World

Author: Kilian Jornet

Narrator: Steven Brand

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 08/25/2020


Synopsis

""Kilian Jornet is the most dominating endurance athlete of his generation.""—NEW YORK TIMES""Inspiring and humbling""— ALEX HONNOLD
The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climbs of Mount Everest in this profound memoir—an intellectual and spiritual journey that moves from the earth’s highest peak to the soul’s deepest reaches.

Kilian Jornet has broken nearly every mountaineering record in the world and twice been named National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. In 2018 he summitted Mount Everest twice in one week—without the help of bottled oxygen or ropes.As he recounts a life spent studying and ascending the greatest peaks on earth, Jornet ruminates on what he has found in nature—simplicity, freedom, and spiritual joy—and offers a poetic yet clearheaded assessment of his relationship to the mountain . . . at times his opponent, at others, his greatest inspiration. 

About Kilian Jornet

Kilian Jornet is the dominant mountain runner of all time and among the world’s greatest athletes. In search of inspiration outside formal competition, Kílian embarked on a self-styled adventure project dubbed Summits of My Life—establishing the fastest known recorded times (“FKT”) to ascend and descend the world’s most challenging peaks, including the Matterhorn, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, Denali and even the planet’s tallest summit. Six days after he summitted Everest, he repeated the performance—an accomplishment for which he was named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic. He lives in Norway.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jesse

Fun read from an amazingly accomplished Ultrarunner and mountaineer. However, Killians not the best storyteller, bless his soul, and most of the stories felt unfinished. Inspiring book that’ll make you want to get outside, climb a mountain, and question why you’re even doing it in the first place.......more

Goodreads review by Ron

A book about contradictions, from the aloof endurance athlete. There is more of a coherent narrative here than the stream of consciousness approach of "Run or Die," but it's obvious he'd rather be out training, and I wonder how a ghost writer was able to keep up and pry even this much out of him.......more

Goodreads review by Vince

First off: Kilian Jornet is the greatest mountain endurance athlete in the world. His accomplishments are so varied and diverse they defy the imagination. I have immense respect for Kilian and regard him as the baseline for excellence in mountain endurance sports. That said, this book made me dislike......more

Goodreads review by Martí

Faré la crítica en català perquè el llibre que jo realment he llegit és Res és impossible. Valoro molt positivament la lectura d’aquest llibre. No sóc un seguidor apassionat ni fidel de la carrera d’en Kilian però si que m’agrada molt llegir llibres d’Esport i experiències vitals com és aquesta lect......more