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"In the predawn hours of July 10, 2014, twenty-seven-year-old Cody Roman Dial, the son of preeminent Alaskan scientist and National Geographic Explorer Roman Dial, walked alone into Corcovado National Park, an untracked rainforest along Costa Rica's remote Pacific Coast that shelters miners, poachers, and drug smugglers. He carried a light backpack and machete. Before he left, he emailed his father: "I am not sure how long it will take me, but I'm...
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Get the Summary of Roman Dial's The Adventurers Son in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Roman Dial's memoir, "The Adventurer's Son," chronicles his life from childhood to the harrowing search for his missing son, Cody Roman Dial, in the Costa Rican wilderness. Raised in a family that valued independence and exploration, Roman developed a passion for adventure and the natural world. He pursued this love through climbing,...
3) The next Everest: surviving the mountain's deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again
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"A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest-and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest,...
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