Dark Shadows Falling - Couverture souple

Simpson, Joe

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0099756110 ISBN 13 : 9780099756118

Editeur : Vintage, 1998

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0099756110
• ISBN 13: 9780099756118
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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