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See You Tomorrow: The Disappearance of Snowboarder Marco Siffredi on Everest
Marco Siffredi was the first person to snowboard Mount Everest in 2001, and was regarded by many as the world's best snowboarder. Jeremy Evans explores the 23-year-old's mysterious disappearance as he descended Everest from the Hornbein Couloir, an unrelentingly steep, difficult to access route with a high failure rate. Using exclusive never-before-granted interviews with family and friends, Evans aims to solve Everest's last great mystery, exploring Marco's pursuit of a dream, his love of freedom and adventure, and how his French family was forever altered by his loss.
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224 pages, Hardcover
Published May 1, 2021
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May 3, 2021
Part adventure story, part historical narrative, this book highlights the story of Marco Siffredi's attempt to be the first to snowboard the Hornbein Couloir on Mt. Everest after successfully snowboarding down Everest the year before.
This book is very thorough and includes a lot of history that goes beyond Siffredi's attempts and also delves deeply into his background growing up in Chamonix. It's an interesting psychological profile of the type of person who attempts things that most people wouldn't even contemplate, and the latter chapters of the book do try to unravel the mystery of what might have happened to Siffredi in 2002.
Those who have enjoyed other mountaineering books should definitely include this one on their "to be read" list, but the story itself isn't completely satisfying because the mystery of Siffredi's death is unsolved, and frankly, there's a fair amount of detail that feels more like filler than critical to the tale. I personally found the filler parts interesting in their own right because I am fascinated with Everest and the people who climb it, but those looking for more suspense and exhilaration may not feel the same.
This book is very thorough and includes a lot of history that goes beyond Siffredi's attempts and also delves deeply into his background growing up in Chamonix. It's an interesting psychological profile of the type of person who attempts things that most people wouldn't even contemplate, and the latter chapters of the book do try to unravel the mystery of what might have happened to Siffredi in 2002.
Those who have enjoyed other mountaineering books should definitely include this one on their "to be read" list, but the story itself isn't completely satisfying because the mystery of Siffredi's death is unsolved, and frankly, there's a fair amount of detail that feels more like filler than critical to the tale. I personally found the filler parts interesting in their own right because I am fascinated with Everest and the people who climb it, but those looking for more suspense and exhilaration may not feel the same.
January 19, 2022
I have read many books about Mt. Everest expeditions, yet I had never heard of Marco. In fact, I had never heard of anyone snowboarding down the mountain. When I saw that he had passed away in 2002, I can see how his disappearance was overshadowed by the aftermath of 9/11/2001 and the Global War on Terrorism. The author did a thorough and detailed job in researching and interviewing a large number of people who knew Marco. His description of Chamonix and Mt. Everest was very atmospheric. His mother's devastation on his disappearance is very palpable. As a mother of a recreational snowboarder (who fortunately sticks to resorts in Utah and Oregon and doesn't go off-trail), I can imagine how awful I would feel if something happened to my own son. In fact, I will recommend this book to my son, who is also named Jeremy. I look forward to reading more books by Mr. Evans.
March 6, 2021
As an avid hiker, ice climber and mountain trekker I have always been enamoured by tales from “the 8000ers”. I myself will never be up to the task of climbing one, but I’ve always enjoyed following the challenges and setbacks of those who do. I often read these stores via Alan Arnette (referenced in this book), explorersweb, Outside Magazine or other trekking publications. Where others enjoy “true crime” I do admit to finding myself fixated with the tales of those challenged or lost on these peaks. My first introduction to these tales were Jon Krakauer’s ‘Into Thin Air’ and the 1998 Everest IMAX film, and since then I’ve read a wide range and collection of these accounts of mountain (mis)adventures.
See You Tomorrow reads like a hybrid between the online articles, and longer books I’ve encountered on the subject. I mean that in the best way possible. Jeremy Evans writes with the casual nature of someone integrated into the climbing and mountaineering community, who has first hand knowledge and experience he relates back to the story being told. I was in the peak of my high school ski-bum years when Marco Siffredi made the first snowboard descent of Everest, and then subsequently disappeared the following year but until reading this book I didn’t know the genuine nature of his personality, or the complexities of his relationship with Chamonix. Jeremy Evans is finally doing what the community should have done long ago, celebrating this tremendous athlete and heartfelt human for the accomplishments he achieved and life he lived. I also thought intertwining Marco’s story with his favourite character The Little Prince was incredibly successful thematically. I wouldn’t usually describe a book about someone’s tragic disappearance as “heartwarming” but I appreciated that Jeremy focused more on Marco’s life than his death.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in outdoor adventure sports, especially snowboarding (or skiing), mountaineering, trekking or even those with an interest in reading well written biographies. I truly appreciate the opportunity to read this digital ARC provided by NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
See You Tomorrow reads like a hybrid between the online articles, and longer books I’ve encountered on the subject. I mean that in the best way possible. Jeremy Evans writes with the casual nature of someone integrated into the climbing and mountaineering community, who has first hand knowledge and experience he relates back to the story being told. I was in the peak of my high school ski-bum years when Marco Siffredi made the first snowboard descent of Everest, and then subsequently disappeared the following year but until reading this book I didn’t know the genuine nature of his personality, or the complexities of his relationship with Chamonix. Jeremy Evans is finally doing what the community should have done long ago, celebrating this tremendous athlete and heartfelt human for the accomplishments he achieved and life he lived. I also thought intertwining Marco’s story with his favourite character The Little Prince was incredibly successful thematically. I wouldn’t usually describe a book about someone’s tragic disappearance as “heartwarming” but I appreciated that Jeremy focused more on Marco’s life than his death.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in outdoor adventure sports, especially snowboarding (or skiing), mountaineering, trekking or even those with an interest in reading well written biographies. I truly appreciate the opportunity to read this digital ARC provided by NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.
August 29, 2023
Marco Siffredi (1979 Chamonix – 2002 Everest) nel 2001 diventa lo snowboarder più bravo al mondo a seguito della sua discesa integrale dell’Everest lungo il couloir Norton: la prima discesa dall’Everest Punk in tutti i sensi (i capelli sempre con un colore diverso, gli orecchini a cerchio e un atteggiamento irriverente verso le guide alpine/gli antichi di Cham), Marco in realtà era un “cocchino di mamma”, un eterno fanciullo, che viveva per lo snowboard: non aveva l’intento di fare di questa sua passione la sua professione, di diventare cioè atleta professionista perché il suo unico obiettivo era divertirsi con i suoi amici. Incapace di relazionarsi con gli sponsor – ai limiti dell’autismo – cercava comunque di procurarsi qualche soldino qua e là (tenterà anche con le competizioni, ma non gli piaceranno nemmeno quelle perché gli atleti vengono giudicati non per le loro reali capacità sulla pendenza ma per i salti acrobatici – cosa che colpisce di più lo spettatore - ma che a Marco non interessano molto perché la vera abilità, sostiene a ragione, invece è sulla discesa ripida), ma con scarso successo: finirà per lavoricchiare per i suoi genitori (che gestivano un campeggio) i quali gli hanno sempre finanziato le sue spedizioni (a buon rendere…)
Con Jean Marc Boivin come idolo, Marco ne ripercorre le tracce prima di arrivare all’Everest: prima ripetizione della Nant e del couloir Mallory (a Chamonix); il passo successivo è misurarsi con gli 8000 ed è la volta della prima discesa dal Cho Oyu, seguito da un tentativo allo Shishapangma. A questo punto si sente pronto per il suo sogno: il couloir Hornbein. Fa un primo tentativo che però non può portare a termine per le condizioni della neve ma che risolverà con la prima discesa integrale dall’Everest dal couloir Norton. Torna nel 2002, determinato a scendere dal couloir Hornbein: gli Sherpa lo vedranno iniziare la sua discesa, ma non lo rivedranno mai più. Di Marco Siffredi si sono perse le tracce sull’Everest. A dispetto di ben due libri su di lui scritti in francese da francesi (il primo è “Dernier Everest” esaurito e che oggi ha una quotazione da capogiro: si aggira attorno ai 450€; il secondo è una biografia redatta per l’editore chamoniardo Guérin, sempre una certa garanzia sulla qualità dei libri che vengono da lui selezionati), l’autore di questo libro, un americano che ha praticato lo snowboard e poi si è messo a scrivere per la stampa specializzata e che non sa il francese, decide di scrivere lui un libro per il pubblico americano - in inglese, of course. Di fatto il lavoro che ne esce è mediocre: dal momento in cui Marco non ha sviluppato alcun pensiero particolare dietro ai suoi progetti (perché non lo riteneva utile, come veniamo ad apprendere), un libro su di lui non si può prolungare più che tanto. Si può raccontare un po’ della sua famiglia, dei suoi exploit (che poi sono pochi, considerata la giovane età), lo si infarcisce con qualche pagina di storia dell’alpinismo, ma poi? Poi ci si ripete – un po’ tanto. Poi si tira per le lunghe con quello che si ha a disposizione (come l’ultimo capitolo in cui analizza approfonditamente la scomparsa di Marco sull’Everest, chiedendosi cosa possa essere successo e non). Nel complesso un lavoro grazioso, ma che probabilmente risulta un’eccedenza considerato quello che c’è già a disposizione sul mercato (che però devo ancora leggere) e che poteva essere semplicemente tradotto.
Con Jean Marc Boivin come idolo, Marco ne ripercorre le tracce prima di arrivare all’Everest: prima ripetizione della Nant e del couloir Mallory (a Chamonix); il passo successivo è misurarsi con gli 8000 ed è la volta della prima discesa dal Cho Oyu, seguito da un tentativo allo Shishapangma. A questo punto si sente pronto per il suo sogno: il couloir Hornbein. Fa un primo tentativo che però non può portare a termine per le condizioni della neve ma che risolverà con la prima discesa integrale dall’Everest dal couloir Norton. Torna nel 2002, determinato a scendere dal couloir Hornbein: gli Sherpa lo vedranno iniziare la sua discesa, ma non lo rivedranno mai più. Di Marco Siffredi si sono perse le tracce sull’Everest. A dispetto di ben due libri su di lui scritti in francese da francesi (il primo è “Dernier Everest” esaurito e che oggi ha una quotazione da capogiro: si aggira attorno ai 450€; il secondo è una biografia redatta per l’editore chamoniardo Guérin, sempre una certa garanzia sulla qualità dei libri che vengono da lui selezionati), l’autore di questo libro, un americano che ha praticato lo snowboard e poi si è messo a scrivere per la stampa specializzata e che non sa il francese, decide di scrivere lui un libro per il pubblico americano - in inglese, of course. Di fatto il lavoro che ne esce è mediocre: dal momento in cui Marco non ha sviluppato alcun pensiero particolare dietro ai suoi progetti (perché non lo riteneva utile, come veniamo ad apprendere), un libro su di lui non si può prolungare più che tanto. Si può raccontare un po’ della sua famiglia, dei suoi exploit (che poi sono pochi, considerata la giovane età), lo si infarcisce con qualche pagina di storia dell’alpinismo, ma poi? Poi ci si ripete – un po’ tanto. Poi si tira per le lunghe con quello che si ha a disposizione (come l’ultimo capitolo in cui analizza approfonditamente la scomparsa di Marco sull’Everest, chiedendosi cosa possa essere successo e non). Nel complesso un lavoro grazioso, ma che probabilmente risulta un’eccedenza considerato quello che c’è già a disposizione sul mercato (che però devo ancora leggere) e che poteva essere semplicemente tradotto.
October 15, 2021
that's been the global trajectory and focus of man's relationship with mountains: to do what has not been done, and once that's done, look somewhere else and do it there.
Color me impressed! After the thorough Introduction chapter I questioned why any more chapters were necessary. Similar to Krakauer's Into Thin Air you start at the climax of the book and work your way forward from an earlier time to catch up, so does Evans in See You Tomorrow. Unlike Into Thin Air it took a bit longer for me to appreciate why this was necessary. How can you tread water for 200 pages when the end result is already known?
I am an armchair mountaineer of Everest and have read my fair share of books documentaries (TV and movie), climbers and the recent updates on evidence (or lack thereof) if Mallory and Irvine summited or not. Some of that content covered what Evan described in Chapter 5: Making History as ATM machine for summiteers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries...first to climb Everest, or first that to climb Everest. I would have grouped anyone willing to ski/snowboard down a Himalayan range in that "ATM summiteers" group and that is unfair to those athletes that can climb 8,000 meters and then decide to ski or snowboard down it. It's nuts on a level I can't comprehend.
Evans takes time to explore the significance of Chamonix, how adventure and death are woven in to the fabric of the residents, the influences that shaped Marco Siffredi and the emerging discipline of extreme freeriding. This is a history I was unfamiliar with and appreciated the time spent here as more than once I thought to myself that this nuts and very extreme.
The evolution of him was marvellous, and now there is a spirit of Marco. The mountain has always been dangerous. The mountain is the truth. You are either capable or not capable. The mountain is not just or, on the contrary, unjust.
Once the fateful date of September 8, 2002 comes and goes I questioned how there could still be more book left. And then an undamaged snowboard was found 9,000 feet below where his tracks ended. What?!
With a disappearance on Everest there are plenty of questions and hypothesis about what happened and while none can be verified, I did appreciate how deep this rabbit hole went.
Ultimately this is an adventure story that is not only a history lesson but a biography on an incredible athlete that did not receive the recognition their talents demanded. An entertaining read and a huge thanks to a friend for recommending it to me!
Color me impressed! After the thorough Introduction chapter I questioned why any more chapters were necessary. Similar to Krakauer's Into Thin Air you start at the climax of the book and work your way forward from an earlier time to catch up, so does Evans in See You Tomorrow. Unlike Into Thin Air it took a bit longer for me to appreciate why this was necessary. How can you tread water for 200 pages when the end result is already known?
I am an armchair mountaineer of Everest and have read my fair share of books documentaries (TV and movie), climbers and the recent updates on evidence (or lack thereof) if Mallory and Irvine summited or not. Some of that content covered what Evan described in Chapter 5: Making History as ATM machine for summiteers in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries...first to climb Everest, or first that to climb Everest. I would have grouped anyone willing to ski/snowboard down a Himalayan range in that "ATM summiteers" group and that is unfair to those athletes that can climb 8,000 meters and then decide to ski or snowboard down it. It's nuts on a level I can't comprehend.
Evans takes time to explore the significance of Chamonix, how adventure and death are woven in to the fabric of the residents, the influences that shaped Marco Siffredi and the emerging discipline of extreme freeriding. This is a history I was unfamiliar with and appreciated the time spent here as more than once I thought to myself that this nuts and very extreme.
The evolution of him was marvellous, and now there is a spirit of Marco. The mountain has always been dangerous. The mountain is the truth. You are either capable or not capable. The mountain is not just or, on the contrary, unjust.
Once the fateful date of September 8, 2002 comes and goes I questioned how there could still be more book left. And then an undamaged snowboard was found 9,000 feet below where his tracks ended. What?!
With a disappearance on Everest there are plenty of questions and hypothesis about what happened and while none can be verified, I did appreciate how deep this rabbit hole went.
Ultimately this is an adventure story that is not only a history lesson but a biography on an incredible athlete that did not receive the recognition their talents demanded. An entertaining read and a huge thanks to a friend for recommending it to me!
May 3, 2021
This is the story of Marco Siffredi a young man from Chamonix France who at the age of 23 passed away on Mount Everest or so they believe. Chamonix is famous for being the birth place of mountaineering and extreme skiing. This is a beautiful place for the tourist and the rich and beautiful but it is also a place that mothers have fear every time the rescue helicopter passes overhead. Marco did not involved with climbing until his teenage years but he seemed to have a natural gift which rubbed those who had been snowboarding their whole life. But Marco was the type of person people could not help be attracted to as he was genuine and just happy go lucky. The story should this when he was preparing for the assent of Everest he was riding his skateboard around and giving children rides. Base on first appearance you would not guess this with his piercings and green or purple hair. This book is a good look at mountaineering along with the extreme snowboarding there is adventure and sadness but this is a good read.
June 17, 2021
This was a really well done book on an area of Everest recent history I didn't know much about. I really liked the sections on the history of snowboard descents in the Alps and Himalaya as much as I enjoyed learning about Marco and his successful descent of Everest as well as the events leading up to his disappearance. He seemed like an interesting, driven and remarkable young man.
There is a lot of repetitiveness in some of the chapters where people are introduced for the 3rd or 5th time but outside of that bit of editing help, it's a good read and I do recommend it.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher and Netgalley in return for an honest review.
There is a lot of repetitiveness in some of the chapters where people are introduced for the 3rd or 5th time but outside of that bit of editing help, it's a good read and I do recommend it.
I received a copy of this book from the publisher and Netgalley in return for an honest review.
February 6, 2023
I really enjoyed this book and read it in one day. I have been snowboarding for years and I was first getting into it in my early teens in 2001-02 while Marco was making his first descents on Everest, and I have also had a lifelong interest in the Himalayas so his story has always been one that fascinated ever since I first read it in Transworld years ago. I enjoyed the analysis as to what the author believes most likely happened to him, and hopefully someday the Hornbein route can be climbed again and some sort of confirmation can be had.
November 7, 2022
Не до конца доверяешь автору книги, уж очень некоторые вещи притянуты за уши, типа сравнений с Маленьким Принцем или зачем-то обмусоливание на 5 страниц гипотезы исчезновения, как побег Марко от цивилизации и жизнь в отшельничестве (что сразу очевидно - абсолютно бредовая теория).
Зато интересные и ужасающие факт чеки об Эвересте.
Зато интересные и ужасающие факт чеки об Эвересте.
June 21, 2024
Such an inspirational story
April 4, 2025
Storia molto interessante, il libri è a tratti un po' ripetitivo.
April 30, 2025
Succinct, readable and relatable reporting/biography/extreme sports writing
November 1, 2025
This is a must read for any die hard snowboarder, splitboarder, and/or mountaineer. I couldn't put this book down, the author did a great job telling Marco's story, as well as delving into the history of everest, and it's notable ascents/descents & ski/snowboard descents.
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