The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm 📖

The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm

Dickinson, Matt
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contemporary fiction nonfiction/adventure memoir past tense first POV ~359 pp

Vibe

bleak gritty existential

A dark contemporary fiction. Expect minimal worldbuilding, dense, literary prose, epic scope. Deeply introspective. Ends on an unresolved note. Contains notable violence.

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Style Fingerprint

Prose density 75
sparsedense
Pacing 40
slow burnpropulsive
Emotional tone 20
darkhopeful
Worldbuilding 10
minimalmaximal
Char / plot 60
character-drivenplot-driven
Interiority 85
externalintrospective
Ending 10
unresolvedcathartic
Stakes 95
intimateepic

Content

Violence 60%
noneextreme
Sexual content 10%
noneexplicit
Humor 20%
seriouscomedic
Romance 10%
nonecentral

Structure & Cast

Structure
Word count89,705
Page count~359 pp
Prologue
Epilogue
Tensepast
Cast & World
POVfirst