Nick Heil
Autore di Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Opere di Nick Heil
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Heil, Nick
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Attività lavorative
- journalist
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 2
- Utenti
- 316
- Popolarità
- #74,771
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 22
- ISBN
- 18
- Lingue
- 2
- Preferito da
- 3
This book attempts to address some of these issues primarily by reporting on the events of the 2006, one of the deadliest seasons on the mountain. David Sharp, an individual climber, ended up incapacitated (but still alive) on the mountain, and numerous other climbers passed him on the way to the summit, but did not offer aid. Heil does a nice job of neutrally uncovering why that happened, the media storm that followed, and the people who were impacted. As part of his investigation, he also relates the story of Lincoln Hall, an experienced climber who experienced cerebral edema on his way down. These stories tie together in interesting ways.
The initial half of the book introduces the major characters and relates some of the history of climbing Mt. Everest, but it is really the second half of the book that is more gripping and that has more to say about the human condition.… (altro)