Sometimes the alteration is physical, but more often it’s buried within. In The Escapist, Filippi proves an old axiom true: no climber returns from a summit the same person as when he began his ascent. From a Taliban attack on a mountainside in northern Pakistan that felled ten of his climbing companions to the deadliest disaster in Everest’s history, Filippi has survived again and again.īut sometimes survival comes with a price. In the course of 20 years spent scaling the highest peaks in the world, Filippi has repeatedly cheated death. A close encounter in a childhood swimming pool left him terrified of the depths, but he had no idea that it was the heights of this world that would eventually call him-and threaten his life over and over again. As a young boy growing up in Lac-Mégantic, Gabriel Filippi lived in fear of drowning.
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