Dark Shadows Falling

Simpson, Joe

ISBN 10: 0224043684 / ISBN 13: 9780224043687

Published by Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom, 1997

About this Item

Reprint 1997 SIGNED by Joe Simpson near fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper. Protected by clear removable archival covering. No inscription. Not price clipped. 207 pages. Illustrations.

Seller Inventory # 0017612

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dark Shadows Falling
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224043684
• ISBN 13: 9780224043687
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Reprint
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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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.