Dark Shadows Falling 70,99 zł
- Typ Okładki - Książka w miękkiej oprawie
- Wydawnictwo - Vintage
- Ilość stron - 208
- Rozmiar - 13 x 20 cm
- Autor - Joe Simpson
- Język książki - Angielski
Product Description Amazon Review The author of Touching the Void interweaves stories of his own mountaineering adventures with reflective consideration of recent tragedies on the world's loftiest peaks. As more people take to the mountains--many of them amateurs and dilettantes who can afford to hire guides of varying levels of expertise--the odds of disaster loom ever higher. Simpson weighs in on "summit fever", the treatment of local sherpas, and what he sees as unimaginative yak routes up the once-grand mountains. Review "Simpson writes better on the darker side of mountaineering than any man alive" (Paul Johnson The Times)"His concern is that the strong ethics and selfless instincts that have characterised mountaineering in the past are being eroded by modern-day ambition, selfishness and greed" (Audrey Salkeld Sunday Times)"Simpson is an elegant stylist and as usual his prose is laced with humour" (Daily Telegraph)"An astonishing first chapter describes thoughts and feeling of a mountaineer slowly dying on Everest, while other climbers relax in a tent a few feet away. They know he is dying but ignore his feeble wave. Simpson is horrified that such selfishness should gradually invade the mountaineering fantasy" (Brian Masters Mail on Sunday) See all Product Description
