Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season (Paperback) by Nick Heil

from LibraryCin

In 2006, Mount Everest saw it's deadliest season since 1996 (the year Jon Krakauer wrote about in Into Thin Air). But this time around, weather was not the cause. One man died after being passed by numerous climbers while he was still alive; another was left behind when they thought he was a lost...

from maritimer

Dark Summit does for 2006 and the Tibetan side of Everest what Into Thin Air did for 1996 and the Nepalese side.  Both years were calamitous on the mountain and figure as the most deadly in Everest's history. Dark Summit deserves a much larger audience than it has found: it is readable, well rese...

from csayban

Every year mountaineers from around the world are drawn to the base of Everest - whose peak reaches 29,035 feet into the sky - to attempt to reach the summit. Many have died climbing Everest, but perhaps no single death had created more controversy than the death of British climber David Sharp du...

from amerynth

Enjoyable read about the 2006 season on the north side of Mt. Everest -- when 40 climbers climbed past David Sharp, who was dying, on the way to the summit. A few weeks laster, a massive rescue effort helped Lincoln Hall escape a similar fate. I found the book to be pretty well balanced and inter...

from jan.fleming

Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. In 2006, 11 people died attempting to reach the summit, the most fatalities since 1996. But unlike 1996, 2006 saw no surprise blizzard, only the constant dangers posed by unstable ice, merciless cold, thin air - and ...