In this compelling mix of high adventure and intellectual quest, a renowned scientist relates his near-death experience on Mount Everest - and how it led him to a lifelong search for the nature of reality. After a horrifying accident in which he literally fell of the face of the world's tallest mountain, Dr. Roger Hart embarked upon an intellectual and spiritual journey that would take him across the globe and through events that changed him forever - a journey that is vividly captured here.
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Höhe: 211 mm
Breite: 134 mm
Dicke: 25 mm
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978-0-7434-7725-3 (9780743477253)
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Roger Hart is a former research professor at the College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, and was a member of the first American expedition to Mount Everest. He has worked as an exploration geophysicist in the rain forests of Ecuador and Brazil, had a glacier named after him in Antarctica, lived and traveled in more than forty countries, and appeared on numerous radio talk shows and television programs. He has written articles for such periodicals as National Geographic, Audubon, Sunset Magazine, and Oregon Coast Magazine. Hart currently lives on the Oregon coast.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE| The Route Tracker
CHAPTER TWO| Dumb Luck
CHAPTER THREE| Blindsight
CHAPTER FOUR| Eye of the Blizzard
CHAPTER FIVE| Letting Go
CHAPTER SIX| Precognition
CHAPTER SEVEN| Magic Cookies
CHAPTER EIGHT| Through the Vanishing Point
CHAPTER NINE|The Prediction
CHAPTER TEN| The Phaselock Code
CHAPTER ELEVEN| Infinite Futures
CHAPTER TWELVE| Relativity's Rainbow
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS