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 enlarge | Author: Michael Kodas
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 22390
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 368
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1401302734
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522
EAN: 9781401302733
ASIN: 1401302734
Publication Date: February 5, 2008
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Condition: New Condition. Hardcover.
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 Fear and Loathing on Mt. Everest June 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Perhaps the best and surely the most depressing of the recent Everest books. It is not only that people die during the season (2004); that happens almost every year. Rather it is the crime and deception that have disfigured the Everest experience. Your gear is more secure in the back seat of your car than on this peak. And be sure to check your guide's resume--it may be part invention. Kodas' account reads like a good novel with its share of villains and life-threatening abandonments. Don't expect a very happy ending.
If you are thinking of being a client on Mt. Everest, this book should give you plenty of pause.
A book you cannot put down... June 5, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book will keep you up at night because once you begin it you can't put it down. Like "Into Thin Air" it stuns it's readers from the get go and you feel as if you are there at base camp enduring the tragic episodes of the mountaineering people who attempt this climb. You do not have to be a climber to be held captive by this unbelievable story of humans being heroic and evil in the pursuit of a passion which with every step taken can be their last. Climbing may be an extreme sport but is also tinged with insanity for those climbers who loose themselves their minds and their humanity when attempting Mt. Everest every year. The author brings to light the life at Everest every year is like being in hell on earth.
The climbers are more dangerous than the mountain June 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very interesting book about all the problems associated with climbing Mt. Everest. I can honestly say that there are at least a dozen people portrayed in this book that should be prosecuted with attempted murder and half that many should be charged with murder.
I liked the parallel stories of the author's and the South American gentleman's attempt to climb Everest.
I learned a lot about Mt. Everest and climbing in general, but finished the book being very angry with all the people who had such little regard for the lives of other climbers.
Fascinating and Revealing May 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
High Crimes is a thrilling read. The author intertwines several stories to constantly keep the reader riveted and entertained. I found myself unable to put the book down because each time I finished a chapter and caught my breath, planning to put the book down, I made the mistake of reading the first line of the next chapter. The action dragged me back in.
The fact that the book is written by a journalist is appropriate because the stories told are all true. I am still in awe of Mt Everest, but it seems that some very sad and dangerous things are going on on her slopes.
entertaining May 19, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found the book a bit gossipy, and it's difficult to tell how much of what the author reports is colored by his own personal failure to summit Everest despite two attempts. However, this book should serve as a warning to anyone who becomes fixated on the Himalaya in general and Everest in particular.
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