The kid who climbed Everest

In the begining of the book Bear is taking about his like prior to the climb. He was in the army and suffered an accident while parachueting and broke his back pretty badly. it was a miricle that he recovered fully and so at that point he left the military and got a job. his like long passion was the outdoors he loved hiking, climbing, camping and anthing else that could get him outside and active. so he was not to keen of his new job an a office. Also his dream since he was a child was to climb Everest he had a poster in his room that he used to stare at and day dream about climbing Everst.