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An intense, well-told narrative of the events on Mt. Everest in May 1996 that claimed the lives of eight climbers. Krakauer was on that expedition and gives his first-person account of what happened. One of the more harrowing details I learned is the climbing routes on Mt. Everest have the occasional human corpse visible, since bringing down a dead body from the higher altitudes would be hazardous to living climbers, as they are already significantly compromised physically and mentally just maki
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85% of the way done with this book I went to bed expecting snow...and so of course I dreamed I was also on Everest all night. It was exhausting!
I just love mountaineering books.
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