8 thousand meters above brain level. Life in the 'death zone'. Illustrated history of climbing Everest

«8 thousand meters above brain level» — this is a story not about sports. It is about our ordinary life, but in slightly different circumstances.
This will be a discussion about how everything actually happens: how the icy hell pulls ordinary people into its embrace, how to step over the corpse of a predecessor and not lie down next to it; how not to go crazy from loneliness while being in a crowd of like-minded people; how to stop falling for advertising and understand what we pay for — to spend 1,500 dollars a day with pleasure, and also about how to find your powerful motivation, so that after feeling anxious, you don't give up halfway through.

«For the first time in my life, I had the chance to read a detective story about climbing Everest. An honest anatomy of all events, practically minute by minute. The book is extraordinarily easy to read, it will certainly draw you into the world of amazing and complex people — climbers. And if you ever plan to reach a height yourself, it will become your guidebook, and you will look at its pages more than once. It provides encyclopedic recommendations that astonish with their precision: on climbing tactics, on nutrition in high mountains, on purchasing quality equipment, drinks, Nepali cuisine while trekking, all presented with a wonderful sense of humor and subtle irony». — Vladimir Shataev, sports master in mountaineering of the USSR, «Snow Leopard», mountaineering instructor, Honored Coach of the USSR, climber of Everest