EMBRACING EVEREST CONQUERING SELF: The Extraordinary Adventure of an Ordinary Man

This book is not a mountain climbing manual. You won’t find technical tips on crampons or rope techniques here. Instead it’s a deeply personal account of how a childhood dream once as distant and unreachable as stars in the night sky was brought to life decades later. Not through magic but through perseverance preparation and years of effort sometimes progressing just an hour or a day at a time.At first Jafar’s dream of standing on top of Mount Everest had no roadmap. He had no resources no connections and no idea how someone like him an ordinary man from a middle-class family in India could ever get there. But over time that dream evolved into something more focused more tangible. It became a goal. An extraordinary one made achievable not just by determination and discipline but also by the alignment of many forces.This memoir is a tribute to all of that to the power of belief to the spirit of endurance and to the many hands and hearts that helped Jafar transform a faraway dream into reality.---Jafar Ismail a former Marine Engineer turned entrepreneur lives in New Jersey with his wife Lubna. A passionate mountaineer he summited Mount Everest in May 2024 at age 58. This debut book reflects his love for adventure and storytelling – an ordinary man’s tribute to living his extraordinary dreams.