Dark Shadows Falling

Simpson, Joe

ISBN 10: 0224043684 / ISBN 13: 9780224043687

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1997

About this Item

Signed by Joe Simpson to the title page; previous owner's name neatly on the front pastedown. First printing. The book is in very good condition, the unclipped jacket is rather worn, especially to the edges (now protected).

Seller Inventory # 010252

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dark Shadows Falling
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224043684
• ISBN 13: 9780224043687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Books
  • Mountaineering and Exploration

About this title

Synopsis

The book is brand new and will be shipped from US.

Review

The author of Touching the Void interweaves stories of his own mountaineering adventures with reflective consideration of recent tragedies on the world's loftiest peaks. As more people take to the mountains--many of them amateurs and dilettantes who can afford to hire guides of varying levels of expertise--the odds of disaster loom ever higher. Simpson weighs in on "summit fever," the treatment of local sherpas, and what he sees as unimaginative "yak routes" up the once-grand mountains.