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Informationen zum Autor Nick Heil has worked as a Senior Editor at Outside magazine! combining his skills as a journalist and his experience at snowboarding! skiing! mountain biking and climbing. Klappentext Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. More and more people are attempting this potentially lethal climb! as commercial tour operators become every more numerous. In 2006! eleven people died attempting to reach the summit! the highest number for ten years. But unlike 1996! there was no surprise blizzard! only the constant dangers posed by unstable ice! merciless cold! thin air - and human nature. In Dark Summit ! Nick Heil tells the shocking true stories of David Sharp! a young British solo climber! who was passed by forty mountaineers as he lay dying on the slopes of the mountain! and Lincoln Hall! who was left for dead yet miraculously survived. A fascinating true story of high-altitude disaster! this is also the first thorough examination of the multiple deaths on Everest in 2006! as Nick Heil asks what climbing the world's highest peak really means for those who take on the challenge and how far will they go in their single-minded pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize. Zusammenfassung Everest - the highest mountain in the world and the ultimate climbing challenge. In 2006! 11 people died attempting to reach the summit! the most fatalities since 1996. But unlike 1996! 2006 saw no surprise blizzard! only the constant dangers posed by unstable ice! merciless cold! thin air - and human nature. Nick Heil tells the shocking true stories of David Sharp! a young British solo climber! who was passed by 40 mountaineers as he lay dying on the slopes of the mountain! and Lincoln Hall who was left for dead yet miraculously survived! and asks: what does climbing the world's highest peak really mean for those who take on the challenge? And how far will they go in their single-minded pursuit of the ultimate mountaineering prize? ...
