High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed

High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
by Michael Kodas

High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
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Author: Michael Kodas
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-05
ISBN: 1401309844
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Hyperion

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Book Review: Worth Slogging Through...
Summary: 5 Stars

The minute I finished reading this book (this morning), I immediately jumped to the WWW and looked at several web sites mentioned in the book. Eagerly looking to see if any of the "characters" were at the Everest camps and attempting to summit this week. They were. I also checked the author's web site, hoping that he might continue the saga beyond the 2006 Everest climbs. He isn't. The book has extensive background information on both the individuals and the logistics of climbing Everest. This makes the book a very enlightening read for armchair mountaineers. He exposes the great fallacies behind "clean up Everest eco-ascents" and "raise money for charity ascents". The book can be a bit of a slog due to non-sequential shifts in the storyline and it goes on a tad too long and too glowingly about Nils, one of the climbers who died on Everest. It was a bit annoying that the author was not a tad more aggressive and informed when doing his own Everest ascents - and that he allowed himself to be taken in by a smooth talker. Still, it is understandable that he could not be too vocal or aggressive - and still get down from the mountain alive. It is rather sad that these snake oil salesmen-type guides cannot be weeded out and banished from mountaineering. Guess that the easy accessibility of Everest has brought out too many con artists. It is shocking that the life-threatening thefts of equipment and food in the high camps have not been stopped. It is not like they don't know who is on the mountain! Book'em Dan-o!!! But since there hasn't been a large loss of life due to the thefts (yet) nothing will be done. This book is a vivid reminder that society (and people) are getting coarser and coarser. Even on Everest!

Summary of High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed

"The perfect follow-up to Krakauer's riveting account of a perfect storm."
--Miami Herald

"Kodas's absorbing description of the narrow moral compass governing human interaction at the top of the world is bound to shock both armchair adventurers and seasoned mountaineers."
--Chicago Tribune

"(Kodas) discovered more deceit, thievery, and double-crossing among his climbers than you find in a Martin Scorsese gangster film. High Crimes is both an adventure story and an expos of a sport riddled with danger and corruption."
--Washington Post Book World

"Kodas's descriptions of the struggles confronting even the best-prepared climbers leave the reader breathless."
--Dallas Morning News

"[High Crimes] is hair-raising and lays bare the excitement and fear that face great explorers at the top of the world. . . . Well written, and as deftly plotted as the finest mystery novel, Kodas brings to life a disturbing picture of society at high altitude."
--Austin Chronicle

"Kodas does an excellent job exposing the ways in which money and ego have corrupted the traditional cultures of both mountaineers and their Sherpa guides. . . . His narrative is as hard to turn away from as a slow-motion train wreck."
--Publishers Weekly

High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world--where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature.

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