National Outdoor Book Award Winner 2021 - Zia Book Award Winner 2021 - First Place Winner 2021 New Mexico Press Women Communications Contest (Biography/History) - First Place Winner 2021 National Federation of Press Women Nonfiction (Biography/History) *Please note that defective copies found in second printing (referenced in some of the reviews) have been removed from inventory by the publisher and the book is currently in its third printing. "Jennifer Hull's Shook is compelling, beautiful, and timely." - Jennifer Sinor, Colorado Review "Hahn, so experienced and well regarded, so committed to his group, is the perfect vehicle for the story....carefully researched and sensitively written..." - Eva Holland,  Outside Magazine Dave Hahn, a local of Taos, New Mexico, is a legendary figure in mountaineering. Elite members of the climbing community have likened him to the Michael Jordan, Cal Ripkin, or Michael Phelps of the climbing world. The 2015 expedition he would lead came just one short year after the notorious Khumbu Icefall avalanche claimed the lives of sixteen Sherpas. Dave and his team--Sherpa sirdar Chhering Dorjee, assistant guide JJ Justman, base-camp manager Mark Tucker, and the eight clients who had trained for the privilege to attempt to summit with Dave Hahn--spent weeks honing the techniques that would help keep them alive through the Icefall and the Death Zone. None of this could have prepared them for the earthquake that shook Everest and all of their lives on the morning of April 25, 2015. Shook tells their story of resilience, nerve, and survival on the deadliest day on Everest. "I'm not one to get vertigo on real mountains, but in reading Jennifer Hull's evocation of Mount Everest, my head was spinning. Using climbs made by the famous guide Dave Hahn as a kind of literary belaying device, Hull deftly connects previous ascents and deadly moments to the day when the storied mountain quaked with a full contingency of climbers clinging to its perilous facade. Going by foot to where jetliners cruise is to invite trouble. Add in avalanches and the resulting riveting tale makes for a book that is hard to put down..." --JAMES MCGRATH MORRIS Author of New York Times Bestseller Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press , Pulizer: A Life in Politics, Print, and Power, The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos and a Friendship Made and Lost in War " Shook by Jennifer Hull is a remarkable account of the massive earthquake that struck Mount Everest at the height of the climbing season in 2015, setting off avalanches that killed almost two dozen and injured scores more. Hull has given us an eloquent, humane and gripping narrative of the tragedy, well-researched and beautifully written. I highly recommend it." --Douglas Preston, #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God and Cities of Gold . "Meticulously researched and written in vigorous, fast-paced prose, Shook is a real-life adventure that is engrossing, informative, and rattling." -- David Wright, author of Fire on the Beach, Recovering the Lost Story of Richard Etheridge and the Pea Island Lifesavers "This is a book that reveals details even the most ardent Everest follower will find new and interesting. Highly recommended."-- Alan Arnette "In Shook , Jennifer Hull deftly merges the story of how Hahn became the icon he is with a detailed account of the 2015 expedition that ended with so much death and destruction. The small details are magnificent, adding to the personalization of Everest, its pull and its power. Hull's narrative smoothly transitions and covers the rescue, never overshadowing the lives of the locals who sacrifice to make dreams possible." --Lauren O'Brien of Malcom Avenue Review (as seen in Shelf Awareness) Jennifer Hull is a New Mexico-based writer, a former middle school teacher, and a former adjunct professor at UNM-Taos.