Dark Shadows Falling

Dark Shadows Falling

Joe Simpson — of Touching the Void fame — on the ethics of high-altitude mountaineering. Written after witnessing dying climbers being stepped over on Everest, it's a furious indictment of the commercialization of the world's highest peaks.
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Publisher Mountaineer Books
Published 1997
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