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Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
357 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Much has changed on Mount Everest in recent years. This is the first book to detail how the recent infusion of wealth into the mountains is reacting with the age-old lust for glory to draw crime to the highest places on the planet, and how a mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves is revealing villains as well as heroes, greed as well as selflessness. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic to the world's...
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