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Summary: Simply the best
Review: One of these books that changes your priority in life. Everest Base Camp - I am on my way, just to be there, where all these events actually took place. A MUST also for those that the highest point they ever got to, was where the ski lift took them.
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Summary: Forcing myelf through
Review: I'm on page 143 of this book and am pondering throwing it out. I've had many friends tell me this was one of the best books they had read. But, so far it is quite boring. I'll probably end up skipping every few pages until the drama hits. Then I won't feel so bad about wasting the money I spent to buy the book.
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Summary: Book was good
Review: After hearing the author on art bell one nite i picked up the book and read it, now i am listening via audio book which makes it seem more real.
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Summary: BECAUSE IT'S THERE
Review: What a great adventure story! Before reading this book I knew nothing about mountain climbing, was not interested in mountain climbing, and knew no one who climbs mountains (I still don't), but I kept reading good things about the book and bought it in paperback. Half-way through I went and bought the illustrated edition, which was more than worth it! What a book! I never would have said I liked "adventure" stories before this book, but now I am hooked. Right after reading this I bought THE ENDURANCE and then INTO THE WILD, both of them good books, but THE ENDURANCE perhaps one of the best books I have ever read (and I read a lot!) This book was excellent, but I still cannot fathom why anyone would want to climb a mountain!!
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Summary: A summary of the 1996 Everest disaster
Review: This was a great adventure novel, and one of the best books that I have read. It goes through the history of Mt. Everest, and through the process of climbing it with incredible detail. The story is based on the May, 1996, Adventure Consultants and Mountain Madness commercial expeditions to the top of the peak. It explains with great detail the disasters that occurred and the great acts of heroism, and how that 1996 was the deadliest season in the history of Mt. Everest.
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Summary: Amazingly chilling account!
Review: I read the book on a flight from LA to London, and I cried through it! Although one already knows the outcome, it was so sad to read the story of how it unfolded, and the futility of it all. I hope that people learn from it, and it never happens again ...... what a book!
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Summary: fabulous !
Review: I read this book while on vacation. The book gave me the chills. Even though you know how it is going to end, you need to keep reading. Couldn't put it down. When I finished the book I still wanted to read on. Jon Krakauer really drags you into the book,which makes him (one of) the best writer(s) around!!
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Summary: I still pick it up and read passages here and there
Review: The best book I ever read. It help me get though a break up with my girlfriend of three years. I got so involved with it I forgot all my pain. One problem It wasn't long enough. I finished it in 5 days.Beck He lives!!!
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Summary: good as fiction, disturbing as reality
Review: I thought this book was well written, but I had some problems with the text. First, was it only me who had problems telling the Sherpas apart? Krakauer said that there was a Lopsang on Hall and Fisher's teams, but only the one on Fischer's team is mentioned in the Dramatis Personae. And what about the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition? The members that died were not mentioned in the dedication, as Chen Yu-Nan was. If you climb from the tibetan side of the mountain and die, it doesn't seem to count in Krakauer's eyes. Another thing that bugged me was the constant reference to "my Sherpas" or "his Sherpas". If they said "my Africans," that would not have been OK and would have sounded racial. IT was degrading to read about the climbers saying that. one problem that Krakauer had was that he would mention someone briefly, ignore them, and then come back to them in great detail. It was too hard keeping everyone organized. Maybe in the case of the Minor characters (and especially the Lopsangs) he should have assigned letters in parenthesis, so we could keep them straight. I don't think that any of the climbers can be held accountable for what their oxygen starved brains did, but Boukreev, who was such a vital member of the team, really acted w/o judgement when he made the decision to climb w/o bottled o2. And I felt nothing but contempt for the people who found Beck and Yasuko alive but left them because THEY wanted to save their own skins. I think that the author should have concentrated more on the A.C. team and not M.M. He should also have spent more time on Rob Hall, an incredibly important person who he gave little mention to.
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Summary: I was rivited. Read it twice. Great non-fiction.
Review: I enjoy Krakauer immensely. I also am somewhat of an armchair adventurer. Have run marathons and aspire to a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. The summit of Mount Everest calls to the adventurer in me like a siren. Though I will never be able to do it, I have the utmost respect for those who have summitted Everest. Jon Krackauer brought to life for me the stuff it takes to get it done. The perils. The immense challenge. He painted the Everest picture with words, especially the 1996 disaster. He did it eloquently. With compassion. He rivited me! I've read it twice and will again.
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