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100 1  Besecker, Rob,|eauthor. 
245 10 Everest strong :|breaching new heights with chronic 
       illness : an inspriational memoir /|cRob Besecker, 
       foreword by Steven M. Derks.  
264  1 New York :|bForever Strong Publishing ,|c2017 
300    265 pages ;|billustrations ;|c23 cm. 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
520    From the time Rob Besecker was a little boy, he was 
       strong. The youngest child in a dysfunctional family, he 
       threw himself into sports at an early age--and found he 
       excelled at them. Athletics became his world, and by his 
       junior year, his mailbox was stuffed with scholarship 
       offers from university football programs from across the 
       US. And then his body started to unravel--and everything 
       changed.  First, Rob fractured his back, ending his 
       college football career before it could even begin. Next, 
       at twenty-six, he began to experience life-threatening 
       heart issues. By twenty-nine, he had to be implanted with 
       a defibrillator/pacemaker device. Then, when he began to 
       experience aches and fatigue that even his faulty heart 
       couldn't account for, he discovered he had rare form of 
       muscular dystrophy.  With each new health challenge, Rob 
       was devastated--but not defeated. He had always been 
       strong, and he refused to let his ailing body limit his 
       existence. So he set out to see what he could do--and as 
       he neared forty, he set his sights on the challenge of a 
       lifetime: hiking to the base camp of Mount Everest, the 
       tallest mountain in the world.  
600 10 Besecker, Rob. 
650  0 Mountaineering|zEverest, Mount (China and Nepal) 
650  0 Muscular dystrophy|xPatients. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  Derks, Steven M.,|eauthor of foreword.