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Dark Shadows Falling,

von: Joe Simpson

Dark Shadows Falling
Bindung: Taschenbuch
EAN: 9780099756118
Ausgabe: New Ed
ISBN: 0099756110
Label: Vintage, London
Hersteller: Vintage, London
Anzahl Seiten: 256
Erscheinungsdatum: August 06, 1998
Herausgeber: Vintage, London
Studio: Vintage, London

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Produktbeschreibung:

Amazon.co.uk:
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.

Amazon.com:
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.




Bewertung: - ETHICS IN THE MOUNTAINS...
Joe Simpson writes from the heart. He is clearly a man, as well as a mountaineer, of conscience. It is about time someone put into words, what many people are undoubtedly thinking. He explores the ethics of some of the bad behavior being exhibited today by some so called mountaineers. While the writing may be a little choppy at times, his message is a powerful one.

Conservationists should take heart. The author is disgusted by the conditions found on formerly pristine mountains. The once unsullied beauty of many of nature's wonders is being fouled by human detritus. The amount of garbage being left behind on Mount Everest by expeditioners is disgusting. Get off Everest, if you cannot or will not clean up after yourselves. There is no maid service on Mount Everest!

The author tackles head on the deplorable way that Sherpas and other native peoples are treated by expeditioners. Often ill clothed and ill equipped for the harsh climatic conditions found at higher altitudes, ... weiter

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Bewertung: - Into Deadly Air
Having once almost died himself in a mountaineering accident, Joe Simpson's "Dark Shadows Falling" attempts to sound the warning for amature climbers who might have missed the message in Jon Krakauer's hugely popular "Into Thin Air." Elite mountains (such as the Himilayas) should be left to the elite climbers, and even they should take pause before tackling the world's toughest climbs. That is the Simpson's message and he dramtizes it with various accounts of mountaineering tragedies and triumphs. There are also light moments, such as the photo of a Sherpa lifting up three granite blocks with his, ahem, scrotum. Overall, this is an excellent read for anyone interested in mountaineering.

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Bewertung: - An Amazing and Honest Book
An Excellent book, so honest. It's great to read a climbing book by someone not entrenched in all the commercialism, someone who is able to offer honest and thoughtful opinions on the tragic state of Himalayan climbing today. The book reads very well, a must for everyone interested in Himalayan climbing today. Joe Simpson is a genius.

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Bewertung: - Excellent read, makes you rethink life and death
I really enjoyed this book when I picked it up on Mt. Hood in Oregon and read it while I was out west hiking the mountains (not mountaineering)

He really looks into the great Yaw of death and what he finds there will change him and the reader, it is as if you are going through life threatening experiences with him and you wonder how you would handle the situations.

Worth a read by anyone who wonders about the great hereafter.

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Bewertung: - If you are a climber, you must read this Book!
I first cme into contact with Simpson when my father convinced me to read "Touching the Void." Although I haven't read all of them the ones I have read have been Unputdownble in every sense. If you have read into thin air by Jon Krakauer then this is an excellent follow up book. The harrowing first chapter introduced me to an element of climbing that I had never seen and do not want to ever see. Again, if you are a climber then you must read this book!

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