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Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season


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Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. In 2006, 11 people died attempting to reach the summit, the most fatalities since 1996. But unlike 1996, 2006 saw no surprise blizzard, only the constant dangers posed by unstable ice, merciless cold, thin air - and human nature. Nick Heil tells the shocking true stories of David Sharp, a young British solo climber, who was passed by 40 mountaineers as he lay dying on the slopes of the mountain, and Lincoln Hall who was left for dead yet miraculously survived, and asks: what does climbing the world's highest peak really mean for those who take on the challenge? And how far will they go in their single-minded pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize?

About the Author :
Nick Heil has worked as a Senior Editor at Outside magazine, combining his skills as a journalist and his experience at snowboarding, skiing, mountain biking and climbing.

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Paints an alarming picture of modern arrogance in the face of nature Heil is good on the nature of obsession...even better on the hallucinatory effects of hypothermia...the truths he reveals are harsh If you couldn't put down Into Thin Air, you must read Dark Summit to understand what it means to climb Everest today and why anyone might accept the risk. Authoritative ... Through rock-solid reporting and vital prose, Heil leads us up into this rarefied world, step by hypoxic step. I consider this book not a sequel to Krakauer's Into Thin Air, but an equal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780753515709
  • Publisher: Ebury Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Virgin Books
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 268 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0753515709
  • Publisher Date: 02 Apr 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Extraordinary True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
  • Width: 130 mm


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