Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 As children, we are unable to understand the dangers of the world, so we accept at face value what we are told by our parents and authority figures. From an evolutionary perspective, this makes sense. #2 The most important question we should ask ourselves is whether or not we are morally justified in exploiting animals. By living this way, we fail to consider the most important question. #3 The question of whether or not to eat animal products is ultimately an ethical one. The best argument for going vegan is that it is the right thing to do, based on what most people consider to be the values that they should live by. #4 I was a self-proclaimed KFC addict. I enjoyed eating at KFC, and it formed a large part of my identity. But I began to realize that my values weren’t in alignment with my actions. I wasn’t alone.

Dr Skatov is the first vegan to have climbed Everest, the Seven Continental and 10 of the World's highest summits. Dr Skatov provides the full insights of his day to day life in this book, including 160 photographs and a free documentary before and during his ascent to the highest point on the planet - Everest. The First Vegan on Everest immerses readers in the extraordinary life of an academic with the mission to climb World's 14 highest summits to raise environmental awareness and save the planet. The unbearable weather conditions, travel adventures in Nepal and China, and conflicts with people will put the reader on edge and into the life of the self-taught mountaineer. The book reveals hidden facts about mountaineering, the commercial exploitation of the veganism cause, the astonishing motivation of Dr Skatov to fight for his and the mission of so many others to save the planet. All unforgettable experiences in the book of climbing Everest is one of a kind text, accompanied by a large volume of photos and a documentary before and during the ascent that put the reader at the forefront of all events and scenery of Everest. All money generated from the sales of this book will be used by Dr. Skatov to climb the World's 14 x 8000 (high summits) x Vegan experiment aiming to prove that people can live harmoniously with nature on a plant-based diet and thus save the planet. Skatov's has climbed 10 of the 14 highest peaks on Earth. His next expedition is to K2 (the deadliest summit in the world). If he succeeds he will be not only the first Vegan but the first person to climb the K2 during the winter.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 We all have stories about how we became vegan or plant-based. They all start the same: we stopped knowing, and we didn’t realize it until we woke up. We willingly choose to know and change, despite the comfort of ignorance. #2 We turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, and we play a game of pretend like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can’t see her. But we remain complicit with the reality through our willful blindness. #3 We see willful blindness reinforced by our desire to conform to tradition, social norms, family expectations, and cultural mores. We see it in the belief that eating animals is neutral or impartial, and that being vegan is taking a position or having an agenda. #4 We have to create boundaries to our compassion and place animals in arbitrary categories in order to continue supporting something that is anathema to our ethics or well-being.

Autobiography is a long-established literary modality of self-exposure with commanding works such as Augustine’s Confessions, Rousseau’s book of the same title, and Salvador Dalí’s paradoxical reformulation of that title in his Unspeakable Confessions. Like all genres with a distinguished career, autobiography has elicited a fair amount of critical and theoretical reflection. Classic works by Käte Hamburger and Philippe Lejeune in the 1960s and 70s articulated distinctions and similarities between fiction and the genre of personal declaration. Especially since Foucault’s seminal essay on "Self Writing," self-production through writing has become more versatile, gaining a broader range of expression, diversifying its social function, and colonizing new media of representation. For this reason, it seems appropriate to speak of life-writing as a concept that includes but is not limited to classic autobiography. Awareness of language’s performativity permits us to read life-writing texts not as a record but as the space where the self is realized, or in some instances de-realized. Such texts can build identity, but they can also contest ascribed identity by producing alternative or disjointed scenarios of identification. And they not only relate to the present, but may also act upon the past by virtue of their retrospective effects in the confluence of narrator and witness.

Why the world’s first vegan mountaineer scaled Mt. Everest twice How he collaborated for the world’s first animal-free suit How his cruelty-free choices have upped the game Read our feature story on Kuntal Joisher. There are many other inspiring stories of transformations. And Vegan Business Directory also.

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 233 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.

In this book, Dr. Rupa Shah throws light on the most common misconceptions about calcium. Most of us believe that by transitioning to a plant-based diet or a vegan diet, we miss out on essentials like calcium, and vitamins D3 and B12. However, • Vegetables and herbs like moringa and curry leaves, and seeds like sesame, offer a rich mine of calcium, far richer and safer than dairy. • By switching to a balanced plant-based diet with regular outdoor exercises, you are equipping your body to resist lifestyle diseases. HIGHLIGHTS This book is a complete power-packed Resource-Kit with the right tools to get you started on a balanced diet! Here is what the book contains: • 40+ delectable DIY plant-based calcium-rich recipes • Smart ideas & tips to boost the nutritional values in your food • A ready-reference Calcium Table to help you plan your daily meals better • Sugar-free, oil-free and Jain-aligned food recipes

***NPR Books We Love selection*** “If you’re only going to read one Everest book this decade, make it The Third Pole. . . . A riveting adventure.”—Outside Shivering, exhausted, gasping for oxygen, beyond doubt . . . A hundred-year mystery lured veteran climber Mark Synnott into an unlikely expedition up Mount Everest during the spring 2019 season that came to be known as “the Year Everest Broke.” What he found was a gripping human story of impassioned characters from around the globe and a mountain that will consume your soul—and your life—if you let it. The mystery? On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Sandy Irvine set out to stand on the roof of the world, where no one had stood before. They were last seen eight hundred feet shy of Everest’s summit still “going strong” for the top. Could they have succeeded decades before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? Irvine is believed to have carried a Kodak camera with him to record their attempt, but it, along with his body, had never been found. Did the frozen film in that camera have a photograph of Mallory and Irvine on the summit before they disappeared into the clouds, never to be seen again? Kodak says the film might still be viable. . . . Mark Synnott made his own ascent up the infamous North Face along with his friend Renan Ozturk, a filmmaker using drones higher than any had previously flown. Readers witness first-hand how Synnott’s quest led him from oxygen-deprivation training to archives and museums in England, to Kathmandu, the Tibetan high plateau, and up the North Face into a massive storm. The infamous traffic jams of climbers at the very summit immediately resulted in tragic deaths. Sherpas revolted. Chinese officials turned on Synnott’s team. An Indian woman miraculously crawled her way to frostbitten survival. Synnott himself went off the safety rope—one slip and no one would have been able to save him—committed to solving the mystery. Eleven climbers died on Everest that season, all of them mesmerized by an irresistible magic. The Third Pole is a rapidly accelerating ride to the limitless joy and horror of human obsession.

The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 325 photographs and illustrations - mostly color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.