audreyofcourse 's review for:

Left For Dead My Journey Home From Everest by Beck Weathers

4.0

adventurous reflective medium-paced

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I thought this was a good memoir. I enjoyed his humor in the book a honesty about his depression. I liked how the Everest tragedy was written and was not as overly detailed and pretentious as the Into Thin Air book. It was interesting hearing about Beck’s life and hearing other perspectives on him. He definitely was selfish and narcissistic before the tragedy but Peach is the worst. His wife Peach literally gave him an ultimatum to marry her or she didn’t want to go to Boston with him. Then she decided she wants a kid and got pregnant on purpose without discussing it with her husband and was pissed he wasn’t a good father. I feel she brought a lot of it on herself and should have communicated with him more. That being said I do again think he was selfish and should have spent more time with his kids.