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National Outdoor Book Award Winner 2021 Zia Book Award Winner 2021 First Place Winner 2021 New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest (Biography/History) First Place Winner 2021 National Federation of Press Women Nonfiction (Biography/History) *Please note that defective copies found in second printing (referenced in some of the reviews) have been removed from inventory by the publisher and the book is currently in its third printing.
"Jennifer Hull's Shook is compelling, beautiful, and timely." - Jennifer Sinor, Colorado Review
"Hahn, so experienced and well regarded, so committed to his group, is the perfect vehicle for the story....carefully researched and sensitively written..." - Eva Holland, Outside Magazine
Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpas. Dave and his team--Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorjee, assistant guide JJ Justman, base-camp manager Mark Tucker, and the eight clients who had trained for the privilege to attempt to summit with Dave Hahn--spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on the morning of April 25, 2015. Shook tells their story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.
"Jennifer Hull's Shook is compelling, beautiful, and timely." - Jennifer Sinor, Colorado Review
"Hahn, so experienced and well regarded, so committed to his group, is the perfect vehicle for the story....carefully researched and sensitively written..." - Eva Holland, Outside Magazine
Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpas. Dave and his team--Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorjee, assistant guide JJ Justman, base-camp manager Mark Tucker, and the eight clients who had trained for the privilege to attempt to summit with Dave Hahn--spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on the morning of April 25, 2015. Shook tells their story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest.
