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Quality
Liked service and item quality and very good reading
The reason for this horrible turn of events is given as inexperienced guides leading inexperienced climbers combined with the u... Read More
As a non climber thats recently come to be slightly obsessed with the subject this book ticked all the boxes for me
There is tragedy with this in his mistaken reporting of harold being alive and then in the way he likely does causing more pain... Read More
Competitiveness
Highly recommended account of a tragic event
In this case we learn about the commercialisation of everest the danger of inexperienced climbers paying to be taken up the com... Read More
These two leaders were friends but also commercial competitors
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Massive respect to the author for writing such a vulnerable and raw account of this disaster
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Into the wild was a better read
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As most people knowthe 1996 expedition was a catalogue of disasters
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Eight people died on the mountain
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Brilliantly written difficult to put down but also difficult to read at times
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Heart breaking story on the events of 1996
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This book suddenly became very relevant no less than ten climbers have died this week 1825 may 2019 on everest
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The reason for this horrible turn of events is given as inexperienced guides leading inexperienced climbers combined with the usual weather restrictions leading to these ghastly insane queueing situations