by Jim Davidson | Mar 28, 2019 | Blog, I Shouldn't Be Alive, The Ledge
It took me nineteen years to write The Ledge. No, I didn’t scratch out twelve words daily for 6,935 days. But I thought about this story every day. You see, my best buddy, Mike Price, died on June 21, 1992. He died while we were climbing Mount Rainier. On our descent...
by Jim Davidson | Nov 5, 2015 | Everest 2015, I Shouldn't Be Alive, Resilience, Uncategorized
The violent earthquake shaking Mount Everest had stopped. Converging avalanches had sputtered out before they could overrun us at Camp 1. Everything went momentarily still. Then, people scrambled back to their tents to check on each other. My tentmate Bart and I were...
by Jim Davidson | Apr 2, 2015 | Everest 2015, I Shouldn't Be Alive, Partnership, Resilience, Speaking of Adventure, The Ledge, Training, Uncategorized
In the Khumbu Valley of Nepal, the cycle of life abounds: Daily activity interwoven with dramatic beauty; the profound crammed against the profane. For me, the cycle of resilience resides here as well: recovery, renewal, and reinvention. I first visited the Khumbu 23...
by Jim Davidson | Apr 21, 2011 | I Shouldn't Be Alive, The Ledge, Uncategorized
The Animal Planet TV show “I Shouldn’t Be Alive” is very popular, so after the “Killer Crevasse” episode about me and my friend Mike Price began airing in January 2011, I have been contacted by lots of interested and interesting people....
by Jim Davidson | Jan 23, 2011 | I Shouldn't Be Alive, Resilience, Uncategorized
The cavernous room was dark. I struggled not to squint at the bright stage lamps streaming light against my face and eyes. From the twilight edge of my vision, just left of the huge video camera, the interviewer’s voice thrust forth question after question, each...
