Left for Dead: My Journey Home From Everest was written by Beck Weathers, along with Stephen Michaud. When this book was written, the writer, Stephen G. Michaud had co-authored and authored nine books in topics that ranged from biographies to history. Beck Weathers was a pathologist with an obsession for climbing mountains. This novel is a first-person account of the Everest expedition, the life that led up to it, and life after the experience. The majority of the book is written from Beck's point-of-view, but it also shifts to other people's points of view, especially Peach's.