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Dark Summit

The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season

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Dark Summit

De: Nick Heil
Narrado por: David Drummond
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In early May 2006, a young British climber named David Sharp lay dying near the top of Mount Everest while forty other climbers walked past him on their way to the summit. A week later, Lincoln Hall, a seasoned Australian climber, was left for dead near the same spot. Hall's death was reported around the world, but the next day he was found alive after spending the night on the upper mountain with no food and no shelter.

If David Sharp's death was shocking, it was not singular: despite unusually good weather, ten others died attempting to reach the summit that year.

In this meticulous inquiry into what went wrong, Nick Heil tells the full story of the deadliest year on Everest since the infamous season of 1996. He introduces Russell Brice, the outfitter who has done more than anyone to provide access to the summit via the mountain's north side---and who some believe was partially responsible for Sharp's death. As more climbers attempt the summit each year, Heil shows how increasingly risky expeditions and unscrupulous outfitters threaten to turn Everest into a deadly circus.

Written by an experienced climber and outdoor writer, Dark Summit is both a riveting account of a notorious climbing season and a troubling investigation into whether the pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize has spiraled out of control.

©2008 Nick Heil (P)2008 Tantor Aire libre y Naturaleza Ciencia Ecosistemas y Hábitats Naturaleza y Ecología Viaje de Aventura Aventura Deportes Deportes extremos

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"Here is humanity itself, personified in exemplary fashion by Nick Heil, addressing the Everest culture's lack of compassion and coming up with the right answers." (Bob Shacochis, author of The Immaculate Invasion)
Through rock-solid reporting and vital prose, Heil leads us up into this rarefied world, step by hypoxic step." (Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers)
Balanced Account • Well-researched History • Excellent Accents • Engaging Moral Questions • Vivid Descriptions
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As a reader of all books Everest I felt could jump into this book with both feet but I was wrong. The author bounces from the 2006 tragedy to the 1996 tragedy and then back to the 1920s. His attempts to intertwine the history of finding Everest, measuring it, climbing it and dying on it falls flat on the listener. Anyone knows a book about Everest will contain a ton of charaters but its up to the author to make the book flow through to the end. Narration was fine but the book was lacking some "flow"

Hard to follow

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Good book in its genre. Well written and good research. I would recoomend this book to all armchair mountaineers

Good book in its genre. Well written and good research. I would recoomend this book to all armchair mountaineers

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Great book, narration was perfect; would purchase a hard copy to really read it and hopefully have some pictures. This book is definitely worth reading.

Excellent book!

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Great factual story and delivery. A very very interesting season on Everest & Very well told

Great story

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I heard about this book while listening to the podcast "Macbreak Weekly" and am very glad that I listened. Prior to hearing this I knew nothing about mountain climbing or the history of Mount Everest for that matter.

The book is very well read and I did not find that the book dragged at any point. I would have liked a little more information on a few of the climbers, but that is a very minor complaint. I highly recommend this book and especially if you are like me who knew nothing of it before hand.

An amazing story

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The 1996 and 2006 climbing season on Everest oil alot of lives. There are books written by multiple survivors and guides. This is a good book that’s gets into some bickering and finger pointing.

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An extraordinary listen for those with an interest in Everest! Never a dull moment in this one. Very thorough.

Riveting

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If you could sum up Dark Summit in three words, what would they be?

revealing, fascinating, carefully researched

Who was your favorite character and why?

narrator

Which character – as performed by David Drummond – was your favorite?

there were no characters in this book--it was a true story

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

yes

Any additional comments?

This event has always fascinated me, probably because Beck Wethers is an ordinary radiologist from Dallas and I live not far away. I never knew mountain climbing could be so hard or dangerous. I lost a colleague several years ago because he literally fell off a mountain.

Great book

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The author writes a thorough, unbiased account of the 2006 ascent on Everest. For those who have read about the 1996 tragedies on Everest, you will be interested in how the 2006 year proved so deadly, even though there were no major weather obstacles to overcome. The author does a fine job of balancing the description of the climb, along with the background information of what goes into a climb, with the intense drama of human peril during the descent. As I listened to the book, I had many questions that the author addressed, including how to reduce the number of deaths on the mountain. But one question, that the author couldn't answer, is what I would do in that situation? Powerful moral questions are presented and, as much as you think you would do the "right thing," the author makes it clear that, in most cases, there is no one "right thing" that can be done. The ethical dilemmas are haunting for the reader and much more so for the actual climbers. This is a book that will stay with me for a long time.

The narrator also does a superb job, including spot on accents. Between the author's writing style and the narrator's accents, I had no trouble keeping the long list of characters straight, which is sometimes a challenge for me with audiobooks.

Fascinating Listen

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Climbing Mount Everest is one of the most challenging---and dangerous---things a human being can do. And 2006 was one of the most controversial climbing seasons.

Nick Heil's account seems to be a fairly balanced account, and ranges from the history of Everest overall, the 2006 season overall, the characters on the mountain, the challenge of climbing Everest and the controversies of that year (especially David Sharp's death). I feel like he (a) gives a great feel for what it means to climb Everest and (b) a fairly balanced take on the controversies.

I enjoyed this immensely.

Compelling

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