Everest: the Ultimate Hump

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Summary: It was like she was right there- amazing!
Review: And I thought only my hairdresser knew for sure what happened on that fated mountain. Read Tami's new book to find out what everybody else in the world failed to reveal. Or make up!

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Summary: Awesome! Hilarious! An Everest classic.
Review: I truly enjoyed reading this book and found multiple laughs on every page. A lot of the best stuff comes in the tiniest details of Tami Knight's cartoons. She seems totally insane. Yeah!

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Summary: Tami does it again!
Review: I've been following Tami Knight's work for years, when she used to be published in Canadian mountaineering magazines. She was our little secret for years, and whenever we saw an American sitting there bemused by some Canadian mountaineering foible, we'd laugh and laugh and laugh. Then we read Tami and really laugh.

Anyway, given recent events on the Big Momo, people might think this book rude, crude and mean. It is. So is Tami Knight. Which is why it must be read. Knight puts her finger right on the main problems with mountaineering nowadays and pushes for all she's worth. Get this book now, before the Ethics Committee has it pulled.

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Summary: Simply Hilarous!
Review: No matter how suttle or how blatantly obvious, the humour in this book will crack you up. You find something new every time you open the pages. There's always an extra laugh hidden in either the dialog or the drawings; which in the end just adds to the fun of reading about Everest.

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Summary: This book is a joke, literally
Review: Tami Knight has captured, with relentless humor and a keen eye for tragedy as well as comedy, the essence of an overwrought mountain.

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Summary: Fresh, bold and delightfully daring. I howled!
Review: Tami Knight, through her bold and daring images, is completely unafraid to state everything that we're all thinking but are too scared to say. Her work is fresh and hilarious. With her new book, "Everest: The Ultimate Hump" she satirizes the uncontrolled commercialism that has taken over the conquest of that incredible peak. Don't miss it.

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Summary: Almost As Good As the Real Thing
Review: The final word on guided climbing. If you want to know the truth about being dragged up Everest, this is the book for you.

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Summary: Tongue in cheek
Review: Well, I agree this is the irreverence that the Everest genre was waiting for! I laughed quite a bit, and smiled at much of it.

The Dianas (Princesses that is) expedition really tickled my funny bone the most. How inspired to take two such icons, both ludicrously unattainable for most mere mortals, and marry them.

Humour is such a subjective thing, you will either love it or hate it. But don't condemn this take on Everest because of a misapprehension of what it is about. It is a cartoon book. It does actually say more about the reality of the sponsorship and money side of 'personal Everests' than all the thousands of words I have read on the subject thus far.