Dead Lucky : Life After Death on Mount Everest (Paperback)

from nandadevi

I am prompted to go back to this book, thinking of the recent death of Lincoln Hall. The newspapers, as best I recollect, managed to resist the temptation to headline ¨No, really.¨ But it´s true, asbestos claimed him earlier this year, sitting dormant in his lungs all that while. Mountaineering i...

from nandadevi

I am prompted to go back to this book, thinking of the recent death of Lincoln Hall. The newspapers, as best I recollect, managed to resist the temptation to headline ¨No, really.¨ But it´s true, asbestos claimed him earlier this year, sitting dormant in his lungs all that while. Mountaineering i...

from nancnn2

While this author's story is compelling, I found his telling of it lacking. For someone who admits that he was in and out of hallucinations, it is odd how he claims to just "know" that certain events definitely occurred. Many of his claims (especially regarding disturbing claims of getting beaten...

from RMSmithJr

This is a heard it on NPR book. I've always enjoyed the mountain climbing genre. Humans that stretch living to its furthest edge. Lincoln Hall stepped over the line, then returned. A remarkable journey in one sentence. The book tells how and why. "The Sherpas were sadly familiar with altitude-ind...

from RMSmithJr

This is a heard it on NPR book. I've always enjoyed the mountain climbing genre. Humans that stretch living to its furthest edge. Lincoln Hall stepped over the line, then returned. A remarkable journey in one sentence. The book tells how and why. "The Sherpas were sadly familiar with altitude-ind...