A fatal helicopter crash – Summiting Mt Everest – Kiteskiing across Antarctica – swept by an avalanche into a deep crevasse – Trapped and starving in a Papuan mine – A broken mast in the Southern Ocean. This list of near death experiences is longer than he’d expected . . .
Mark Sedon has experienced more highs, thrills, dangers and accidents than most of us. The dangers have been life-threatening, the rewards often sublime and lifechanging.
This book is both an absorbing read and a challenge: to every one of us to live life to the full and take risks within reason. Although we don’t have to ski off the top of a mountain like Mark Sedon.
Geoff Walker (editor).
Reader Feedback
The writing style is easy to read and draws you in with lots of little teasers that keep you reading but the whole thing is full of humour and classic kiwi scrapes that we can all identify with. I have loved it!
Producing books is a labour of love I know from first hand so I wanted to take the opportunity to salute you and thank you on producing a truly interesting funny and inspiring publication.
Dr Roger Wandless, NZ.
Congratulations! Your book is fabulous! What a great pleasure! You are a fine story teller. Well done!
Richard, Canada.
Finished your book, I’m not much of a reader and I usually get bored of books quickly but yours held my interest from start to finish. I’d say you’re a pretty professional writer, so well done mate.
Alex Keith, NZ.
I just finished your book!!! Absolutely one of the most incredibly inspiring, nerve rattling, hard to put down books I have ever read!
Josh Newbury, Otago, NZ.
Hi Mark, I just got round to reading your book… Fantastic! Up there with Bonnington and Ed Hillary for ease of reading and armchair thrills…
Ken Hardman, UK.
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About the book
It’s amazing how fast life can change. From enjoying the time of your life, to almost losing it. A split second, a small mistake, a shift in events can kill you, cause an injury; or you might just sneak through, unknowingly escaping catastrophe by the smallest of margins . . .
I’ve had a number of such events (well, the ones that I’ve known about), such as breaking my back when I was buried in an avalanche, watching helplessly high up on an erupting volcano, almost dying in a catastrophic helicopter crash, a severe brain haemorrhage, dropping a burning sack of explosives onto a helicopter skid, a 10m fall into a crevasse, starving for five days in a shipping container in remote Papua, and a yacht fire and broken mast in the Southern Ocean.
I’ve seen accidents happen to others — a Sherpa high in the Himalayas whom I saved as he was about to fall out of his harness, a friend being swept away by an avalanche, and a 200kg pulk (sled) dragging a mate backwards into a crevasse . . .
I’ve written this book to share some of the unbelievable survival stories that I’ve been involved in.
I have a saying: ‘I am very afraid of dying, but I am even more afraid of not living.’
I’ve divided this book into two parts. The first part covers some of my varied outdoor adventures in different places around the world. The second part, which I’ve called ‘Escaping Catastrophe’, describes a series of events in which spectacular things really did happen and my life was often seriously in danger.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, sometimes it does!
Mark
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Mark Sedon’s book is a true tale of high adventures and what happens when things don’t go quite to plan.
The book is 218 pages with 12 pages of colour images in the middle. The size is 153 x 234mm.
$39.99.
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About Mark Sedon
Mark Sedon – adventurer, guide & author
Mark is a well-respected professional New Zealand ski guide. He is a humble character with a calm nature and a passion for powder snow. He
Speaking
Need a guest speaker to entertain and inspire your group?
Mark has several talks he can present to your group on topics from the book like climbing Mt Everest, to being held in a shipping container at 4000m for 5 days with no food or water in remote Papua. He has climbed many of the world’s highest peaks, and traversed 2,000km across Antarctica with kite and skis to climb the most remote mountain on earth, The Spectre.
In 2018 he was a finalist in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer.