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Summary: Incredible! Awesome! Amazing!
Review: This is the most beautiful book about the most beautiful, and most haunting mountain that I have read. I read "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer, and have been fascinated with mountain climbing ever since. I climbed to base camp, Camp Muir, of Mt. Rainier, and that's a pimple compared to Everest. It's amazing and I admire and respect both the climbers and the mountain. A wonderful book.
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Summary: A book that captures the spirit of Everest and its climbers.
Review: This spectacular book is absolutely stunning. The photography is magnificent and it is full of interesting, informative, insightful prose pertaining to the mountain and those who would climb it. It manages to take an experience most of us will never have, and translate it to an experience we can at least feel in spirit.
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Summary: Fantastic book!
Review: Whether you are interested in mountain climbing, science, medicine, history, or anthropology you will find this a great book. I was stunned by the beauty of the pictures and the fine quality of the book, especially at this price. It easily holds its own with fifty and sixty dollar "coffee table" books. Even my children enjoyed looking at the many photographs and learning right along with me. This is terrific!
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Summary: Fantastic book!
Review: Whether you are interested in mountain climbing, science, medicine, history, or anthropology you will find this a great book. I was stunned by the beauty of the pictures and the fine quality of the book, especially at this price. It easily holds its own with fifty and sixty dollar "coffee table" books. Even my children enjoyed looking at the many photographs and learning right along with me. This is terrific!
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Summary: Coffee table it is
Review: While the other accounts of Everest 1996 focus in on Fischer'sand Hall's teams, this one focus in the the IMAX team. From the looksof it, they were the only moderates on the mountain that season. They positioned themselves for rescue efforts with the Alpine Ascents team. While everyone else was being selfish with supplies and radio's and rescue teams, Brashiers and Viesters were there to give vital oxygen, help climbers from camp 3 and coordinate the helecopter rescue of Weathers and Gao. While the narration may not be the most riviting part of the book, the full page color pictures are. This was a film making trip for the IMAX crew so the pictures they brought back for this book were increadible. They also published Scott Fischer's pictures of summit day. I noticed one picture where Krackauer is sitting in the snow as many climbers are going up the Hillary step. It really brought to life the sceene from "Into thin Air" where he was wanting everyone to hurry up so he could get to his oxygen on the south summit. The short stories in the middle of the book make this the ultimate coffee table book. They read like magazine articles. The other books on Everest 1996 can be checked out of a library. This is the one you want to have in your home.
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