Icefall

All became in internet legend when he recorded his climb out of a crevasse near Mt. Everest, a climb he made after a fall that left him with broken bone, a dislocated shoulder and internal bleeding. But this wasn’t All’s first rodeo. Traveling the world to document the rapid changes that are occurring as a result f climate change, All has been to glaciers and to jungles, been chased by a pissed off hyena, climbed Mt. Everest and stepped on a poisonous snake in Africa.  All’s journeys are fascinating in and of themselves, but the changes in our planet are the truly frightening aspects of this book. Faced with a president elect who disavows climate change, All’s book is a timely and sobering read

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I have read many mountaineering books and I am a biology teacher, so you would think I would have thought about the impact of global warming on places like Mount Everest, right? Wrong. Fact is, Mount Everest like all glacier covered mountains is melting. John All worked as a research scientists collecting data about global warming from all sorts of places - the Andes, Belize, Africa and of course, the Himalayas. 
It was the ice fall avalanche that chased him off Everest to a much humbler mountain after 16 sherpas were killed on Everest. On Himlung, he decided to make some coffee and fell into a crevasse. He was certain he was going to die, his video went viral on face-book and triggered his rescue.