Dark Shadows Falling - Softcover

Simpson, Joe

 
9780099756118: Dark Shadows Falling
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0099756110 ISBN 13: 9780099756118
Verlag: Vintage, 1998

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In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent. He was filmed in his last hours for a television feature. Why did onlookers not hold the dying man's hand and comfort him? The answer appals Joe Simpson, who was himself left for dead in a cervasse in Peru in 1985 - 'because it might compromise their summit bid'. It is an ethical question that Joe is forced to confront as he climbs a hazardous route on Pumori.

Now that Everest has become the playground of the rich, where commercial operators offer guided tours to the top, camping admist the detritus and unburied corpses of previous less fortunate climbers, Joe wonders if the noble instincts that once characterised mountaineering have been irrevocably displaced - as in politics, in business, in the media and in other facets of society.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joe Simpson is the author of several bestselling books, of which the first,Touching the Void, won both the NCR award and the Boardman Tasker Award. His later books are This Game of Ghosts - the sequel to Touching the Void - Storms of Silence, The Beckoning Silence and two novels: The Water People and The Sound of Gravity.

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Verlag
Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0099756110
ISBN 13 
9780099756118
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
224
Kontakt zum Hersteller
EDITIONS GALLIMARD
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Assago Milano
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Italien

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