Dark Shadows Falling [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Simpson, Joe

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099756110 ISBN 13: 9780099756118

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1998

Riassunto

In 1992, an Indian climber was left to die on the South Col of Mount Everest by other climbers who watched his feebly waving hand from their tent. He was filmed in his last hours for a television feature. Why did onlookers not hold the dying man's hand and comfort him? The answer appals Joe Simpson, who was himself left for dead in a cervasse in Peru in 1985 - 'because it might compromise their summit bid'. It is an ethical question that Joe is forced to confront as he climbs a hazardous route on Pumori.

Now that Everest has become the playground of the rich, where commercial operators offer guided tours to the top, camping admist the detritus and unburied corpses of previous less fortunate climbers, Joe wonders if the noble instincts that once characterised mountaineering have been irrevocably displaced - as in politics, in business, in the media and in other facets of society.

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Recensione:

"Simpson writes better on the darker side of mountaineering than any man alive" (Paul Johnson The Times)

"His concern is that the strong ethics and selfless instincts that have characterised mountaineering in the past are being eroded by modern-day ambition, selfishness and greed" (Audrey Salkeld Sunday Times)

"Simpson is an elegant stylist and as usual his prose is laced with humour" (Daily Telegraph)

"An astonishing first chapter describes thoughts and feeling of a mountaineer slowly dying on Everest, while other climbers relax in a tent a few feet away. They know he is dying but ignore his feeble wave. Simpson is horrified that such selfishness should gradually invade the mountaineering fantasy" (Brian Masters Mail on Sunday)

Descrizione del libro:

Joe Simpson has become a legend, not only among mountaineers, but to thousands who would shun his dangerous lifestyle but have been inspired by his honesty and courage.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0099756110
• ISBN 13: 9780099756118
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224