He chronicles how his experiences on mountains ranging from K2 to Everest to Nanga Parbat, a mountain in Pakistan also known as The Maneater, transformed him from a hubristic young man who pushed himself to the brink into the cautious adventurer who preserved seven lives when he halted an ascent up Everest just an hour from the summit. Haunted by survivor’s guilt and post-traumatic stress disorder, Filippi explains how life on the brink of death can change someone. In a book marked by adventure and tragedy, Filippi dissects what it takes to get to the top of the world, and what that quest takes out of you. The Escapist is an unflinching account of extreme feats and devastating loss that takes readers to the highest peaks on six continents and into the deepest valleys of the human soul. 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. A winner of multiple National Magazine Awards in Canada, his work has also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing and The Best Canadian Essays.As a young boy growing up in Lac-Mégantic, Gabriel Filippi lived in fear of drowning. He has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Sportsnet, Maclean's and The Walrus, among other publications.
He lives in Toronto and teaches at Carleton University.īRETT POPPLEWELL is a bestselling author and associate professor of journalism at Carleton University in Ottawa. He has written for SportsNet magazine, the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s and the CBC. His stories have been recognized in such categories as best short feature, investigative reporting, sports and profiles. He lives in Montreal.īrett Popplewell is a National Magazine Award-winning writer and editor. An ambassador for his hometown of Lac-Mégantic, Filippi is also an Ironman, a young grandfather and a seasoned public speaker. The second Canadian and only Quebecer to climb both faces of Everest, he has scaled the highest peaks of six of the world’s continents. Gabriel Filippi is one of Canada’s foremost mountaineers.
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