The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest runs 10 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Richard M. Davidson and Nelson Runger (about 6.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 10 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 20 days |
| 1 hour / day | 10 days |
| 2 hours / day | 5 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 7 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 10 hours, it runs longer than 64% of the 2,732 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Richard M. Davidson
Richard M. Davidson narrates 24 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 239 hours in all.
- Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- Training the Brain: Cultivating Emotional Skills
- Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
- A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
- 50 Success Classics: Timeless Wisdom from 50 Great Books of Inner Discovery Enlightenment & Purpose
About as long, on the History & Culture shelf
493 History & Culture audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Other recordings
- The 2010 recording read by Lloyd James runs 0.4 hours shorter (9.6 hours).
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest is an audiobook by G. Weston Dewalt and Anatoli Boukreev: a 10-hour unabridged recording, read by Richard M. Davidson and Nelson Runger, released November 25, 2011, on the History & Culture and Non-Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 10 hrs
- Narrated by
- Richard M. Davidson, Nelson Runger
- Released
- November 25, 2011
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- History & Culture, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781456125134
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest as an audiobook?
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest runs 10 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 6.7 hours.
Is The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest?
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest is narrated by Richard M. Davidson and Nelson Runger.
Is The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 6.7 hours, saving 3.3 hours.