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The Ledge

An Adventure Story of Friendship and Survival on Mount Rainier

by Jim Davidson
Kevin Vaughan
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On June 21, 1992, two best friends summited Mount Rainier. Within hours, their exquisite accomplishment would be overshadowed by tragedy. On their descent, Jim Davidson fell through an ice bridge on Rainier's northeast flank, plunging eighty feet into a narrow crevasse inside the Emmons Glacier and dragging Mike Price in after him. Mike fell to his death; Jim, badly injured and armed with minimal gear, faced an almost impossible climb back out of the crevasse, up a nearly vertical ice wall. Mourning his friend's death, he miraculously climbed out of the crevasse and lived to relate his experiences.


Told in parallel narratives of the tragedy and the climbers' lives, The Ledge is both a riveting, wrenching story and an inspirational adventure tale.

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  • Release date

    July 26, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781452622743
      • File size: 225457 KB
      • Duration: 07:49:42

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Jim Davidson suffered a harrowing ordeal, though the gravity of his situation is not completely evident in his voice as he recounts falling 80 feet into a glacial crevasse on Mount Rainier and dragging his friend Mike Price down with him. The terrible events speak for themselves--Davidson, badly injured, had to climb out of the crevasse, leaving behind Price, who had died from his injuries shortly after the fall. Davidson narrates a bit too flatly, given the drama of the story. He is not a professional narrator; despite the absorbing nature of his challenging escape, the audio experience at times drags because of the lack of variation in his narration and the level of technical detail. S.E.G. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 25, 2011
      Davidson relates the story of the mountaineering accident that claimed his best friend, and his own 80-foot climb out of the crevasse into which the two had plunged after "summiting" Mt. Rainier. The suffering didn't stop after he was safe; "survivor's guilt" plagued him as he struggled to "survive the survival." He later found success as a motivational speaker that served as a form of catharsis; his speaking talents are evident in his emotional rendering of the fall and his excruciating, four-hour climb to safety. He traces the path that ended with the two on Mt. Rainier, quoting freely from his friend's journal and recalling his own journey to mountaineering, finding "something that nourished my soul" in the process. The buildup is sometimes tedious, but Davidson and journalist Vaughn (a reporter for the Denver Post) have crafted a modern Aristotelian tragedy.

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