What It's Like to Climb Mount Everest, Blast Off into Space, Survive a Tornado, and Other Extraordinary Stories

What is it like to reach the top of the world's tallest mountain? To survive a shark attack? To fly with the US Air Force Thunderbirds? To find out, Jeff Belanger conducted interviews with twelve ordinary people who just happened to do extraordinary things-and then turned the interviews into adrenaline-packed, thrilling stories told in the first-person voices of the interviewees.


Includes WHAT IT'S LIKE
To Be Attacked by a Shark * To Save People from a Burning Building *
To Walk Across America * To Experience Combat *
To Fly with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds * To Survive a Tornado *
To Be Struck by Lightning * To Sail Through a Hurricane at Sea *
To Blast Off into Space * To Walk to the North Pole *
To Run Your First Marathon and Run Fifty Marathons in Fifty States in Fifty Consecutive Days * To Lose Both of Your Legs to Frostbite and Climb Mount Everest