My Life on the Ledge: Everest West Ridge, Winter K2, and a Search for Purpose

Author/Contributor(s):	Cienski, Nick
Publisher:	Falcon Guides
Date:	4/6/2027
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

At nineteen, Nick Cienski left college for the world’s highest peaks, climbing with no bottled oxygen, no Sherpa support, and plenty of hard lessons. A hundred-foot fall into a cave should have killed him. Losing a boot above 8,000 meters should have sent him home. And surviving the deadly avalanche that tore through Everest Base Camp in 2015 should have been enough to make him stop. Drawn from journals written while his hands were still shaking, My Life on the Ledge takes readers from the thin air of Everest to the remote reaches of Tibet, where a golden Lab became an unlikely rescuer.

After the expeditions, Cienski built a second life designing elite performance gear for Olympians and special operations forces, and even a commercial spacesuit. His relentless pursuit of adventure also led him to the World's Toughest Mudder and a grueling 160-mile ultramarathon in the Sahara, twice. Told with sharp humor, remarkable candor, and no chest-thumping, My Life on the Ledge is a fast-paced, globe-trotting adventure about ambition, survival, and hard-won perspective, revealing what risk really costs and why some goals are worth pursuing anyway.