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Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season Hardcover - 2008
by Heil, Nick
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- Title Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
- Author Heil, Nick
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used: Good
- Pages 271
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brand: Henry Holt and Co, New York
- Date 2008-04-29
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0805083103
- ISBN 9780805083101 / 0805083103
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.48 x 0.95 in (24.13 x 16.46 x 2.41 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Everest, Mount (China and Nepal) -, Mountaineering - Everest, Mount (China and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008003264
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.522
Summary
THE HIGHEST MOUNTAIN, THE GREATEST PRIZE, THE ULTIMATE PRICE TO PAYEverest - 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?