How Long to Read Summits and Secrets

How Long Does it Take to Read Summits and Secrets?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 42 minutes to read Summits and Secrets by Kurt Diemberger

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

'A book grows rather like a snow crystal. One doesn't write it from start to finish but, in greater or less degree, all at the same time ... that is why my book is not in chronological order; for everything is of the present, held in the moment when thought captures it.' Kurt Diemberger's Summits and Secrets is a mountaineering autobiography like no other. Writing anecdotally, Diemberger provides an abstract look into his life and climbing career that is both fascinating and awe-inspiring to navigate. Known for surviving the 1986 K2 disaster – an account described in harrowing detail in his award-winning book The Endless Knot – Diemberger provides a captivating insight into his earlier climbs in Summits and Secrets . From climbing his first peak in the Tyrol mountains of Austria, to the epoch-making first ascent of Broad Peak with Hermann Buhl in 1957, and then summiting Dhaulagiri in 1960, where he became one of only two people to have made first ascents of two mountains over 8,000 metres, Diemberger recounts his experiences with wit, honesty and an infectious enthusiasm: 'Every climber knows the thrill ... the unique inexplicable tension, which the regular shapes of the mountain world awake in him: huge pyramids, enormous rectangular slabs, piled-up triangles of rock, white circles, immense squares – the thrill of simplicity of shape and outline and the excitement of mastering them, to an unbelievable extent, by his own efforts, his own power ... ' Summits and Secrets is a must-read for those wanting an insight into the life and achievements of one of the toughest high-altitude climbers the world has ever known.

How long is Summits and Secrets?

Summits and Secrets by Kurt Diemberger is 567 pages long, and a total of 145,719 words.

This makes it 191% the length of the average book. It also has 178% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Summits and Secrets Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 16 minutes to read Summits and Secrets aloud.

What Reading Level is Summits and Secrets?

Summits and Secrets is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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