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 enlarge | Author: Ed Webster
Publisher: Mountain Imagery
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 595029
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 580
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 0965319911
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522092
EAN: 9780965319911
ASIN: 0965319911
Publication Date: January 6, 2001
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PUSHING YOUR SELF June 25, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great Book! I do not write reviews because they are generally over rated! I do not promote anyone one but knowing how hard true climbing is and the ART of climbing this book is great for all. I recommend people who doubt themselves look at what Ed did from loosing someone to concuring his own fears. Worth the read! I understand some of this, as I have concured many of my own fears while serving in the Navy.
Easily the Best June 14, 2002
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
After plodding through dozens of climbing books, half of them unreadable, this book was a great joy. Not only is it a beautiful volume, with voluminous footnotes and a painstaking attention to detail, but I also believe that Webster is an extraordinarily adept writer. I spent the better portion of two evenings reading "Snow in the Kingdom," and wanted to read it over again once I was finished. There is something uniquely magical about Webster's photographs, his philosophy, and his optimistic nature. The chapters dealing with the climb up the Kangshung face of Everest brought to attention the almost mystical nature of the high altitude experience, sans oxygen. It is easy to believe that after a while, utterly dwarfed by creation and crippled by thin air, man begins to feel a sense of cosmic meaning and purpose on a mountain. In many ways, all of the men on the 1988 Everest Kangshung climb were winning the race against time, drudgery, and (dare I say it) mortality. Perhaps a step into the void is the only way, in this short life, any of us can feel as though victory, however briefly, is at hand. Yes, Webster paid a terrible price in his venture on the ice walls of Everest. This book, however, should be redemption enough for that suffering. It is one of the very best of its kind.
A Good Read and A Great Mountaineering Story April 8, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Snow" is an outstanding achievement----well written, beautifully illustrated, and meticulously edited. Ed made alive the routine of expeditions. This is a great read for the non-climber and essential for novice mountaineers and those stepping up to the expedition arena. I have not seen another book that so accurately describes the discipline and careful thought that goes into successful and safe climbing. Beyond the technical details, Ed reveals himself--- letting others know what motivates elite climbers to risk everything for climbing success. In an age when Americans seem to most value the things they own, it is refreshing to read of a life that most values experience. I am a better person for having learned Ed's struggles and successes.George B. Allen
Author of "Ultrasafe-A Guide to Safer Rock Climbing"
 Slow but powerful October 17, 2001
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
I read this one right after reading "into thin air". Ed Webster is not a true, talented story teller. Still the book takes you into the magical places of the earth nepal and tibet. Overall a good book to read if you can stand webster's insincere, unconvincing motivation: his guilt about his girlfriends death.
What is it like being there? July 7, 2001
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a non-climber, I've often wondered, "What does it feel like to be on Everest?" Many climber/authors seem to approach the question primarily by describing their emotions, not their senses. The result is often an unsatisfying allegorical sense of Everyman's struggle against the forces of nature. But I wanted to know what it felt like in terms of what your senses are feeding you. What do you see? What do you hear? What does it look like when you pause for breath and look around? What does the top look like, not just as you peer off to Tibet, but what is the ground like under your feet? Does it feel as if you're going to fall off the top? And what's it like to come back down? I think Ed Webster's book, Snow in the Kingdom, answers these questions better than anything else I've read. And the pictures complement the text wonderfully. I couldn't put it down. Read it in one sitting, and my cozy easy chair and favorite briar have never been as appreciated. Though at one point I could have persuaded myself that my toes were feeling a little chill. Thanks for the trip, Ed.
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