Dark Shadows Falling
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Author(s)Joe Simpson
PublisherMountaineers Books
ISBN / ASIN0898865492
ISBN-139780898865493
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank2,151,789
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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The author of Touching the Void interweaves stories of his own mountaineering adventures with reflective consideration of recent tragedies on the world's loftiest peaks. As more people take to the mountains--many of them amateurs and dilettantes who can afford to hire guides of varying levels of expertise--the odds of disaster loom ever higher. Simpson weighs in on "summit fever," the treatment of local sherpas, and what he sees as unimaginative "yak routes" up the once-grand mountains.