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Everest : Mountain Without Mercy (精装)
by Broughton Coburn, David Breashears, Tim Cahill
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Nature, Outdoors, Mountaineering, Geography |
| Market price: ¥ 378.00
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¥ 338.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Beautiful photos and fascinating stories make this book a work of art and an excellent companion to Into Thin Air and The Climb. |
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Michael Parfit (The New York Times Book Review) (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
It's a great picture book. For anyone with the remotest interest in the story of the mountain, the photographs, paintings and maps are invaluable: you get a sense of the Nepalese setting, the awful magnificence of the mountain, the complications of the route, the look of frostbite on the face of the man who was given up for dead and the breathlessness of the death zone...
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Gilbert Taylor (Booklist) (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
This glossy album of photos and text has two high-interest attributes: it is the companion to an IMAX film slated for 1998 release about an expedition to Everest; and the IMAX filmmakers participated in the May 1996 disaster-and-rescue drama on the mountain, a chronicle of which (Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer ) rocketed to first place on best-seller lists. Perhaps the latter fact makes National Geo's marketeers hopeful and tips libraries to inevitably strong demand for the title. The text is descriptive of the film team's reactions to the crisis but is a less compelling read than Into Thin Air; its signal asset is the hundred-plus photos of the earth's most titanic vistas. Alone worth the price of admission, the images allow the armchair alpinist to wonder at the sights both cultural and natural from Katmandu to the summit. Scenes of marketplaces, yak trains, Sherpas, and temples are buttressed by author Coburn's information about propitiation rituals and prayers addressed to mountain deities - not a bad idea before taking on a mountain that kills 20 percent of those who reach the top. Sidebars are varied, summing up the active geology of the Himalaya, the story of survivor Beck Weathers, or that of Everest's first summiteer, Tenzing Norgay, whose son figures in this expedition and in a triumphant photo at the summit. The pictures are absolutely awesome and exhilarating, fully imparting the lure and deadliness of an Everest experience. |
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Brian Rubendall (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
This book is an excellent companion piece to Jon Krakauer's epic Everest tale Into Thin Air as well as the Everest IMAX film that was being shot at the time that the May 1996 trajedy occurred. The book is coffee table size, and full of spectacular photographs of the mountain, mostly taken by the IMAX team. The narrative that accompanies the images documents what happened during that terrible month, from the horrific deaths to climber David Breashears's team's successful summitting of the mountain with IMAX camera in tow. The words read like a National Geographic article, however, giving only an overview of the events that occurred. Krakauer's book is essential for a complete understanding of what happened.
Overall, a fine coffee table book for those with an interest in mountaineering as well as those fascinated by the May 1996 disaster.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
If you have a collection of books about Everest or mountain adventures in general, this book is a necessary addition. Being on the mountain at the same time of the disastrous 1996 climbs of Rob Hall's and Scott Fischer's expeditions adds extra interest to the book, and gives the reader still another perspective on that episode. But more valuable, the photographs (both related to the disaster, as well as of Everest and the surrounding countryside) give the reader a much better handle on what it looks like up there. They bring home, much more vividly, some of the risks and dangers that climbers undertake when they start that climb. A great book to read, and a great one to give as a gift for those you know who enjoy adventures or adventure reading such as this.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
While the other accounts of Everest 1996 focus in on Fischer'sand Hall's teams, this one focus in the the IMAX team. From the looksof it, they were the only moderates on the mountain that season. They positioned themselves for rescue efforts with the Alpine Ascents team. While everyone else was being selfish with supplies and radio's and rescue teams, Brashiers and Viesters were there to give vital oxygen, help climbers from camp 3 and coordinate the helecopter rescue of Weathers and Gao.
While the narration may not be the most riviting part of the book, the full page color pictures are. This was a film making trip for the IMAX crew so the pictures they brought back for this book were increadible. They also published Scott Fischer's pictures of summit day. I noticed one picture where Krackauer is sitting in the snow as many climbers are going up the Hillary step. It really brought to life the sceene from "Into thin Air" where he was wanting everyone to hurry up so he could get to his oxygen on the south summit.
The short stories in the middle of the book make this the ultimate coffee table book. They read like magazine articles. The other books on Everest 1996 can be checked out of a library. This is the one you want to have in your home. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
The story of the IMAX team on Everest in the year of the tragedy in 1996. A large format coffee table style book with plenty of pictures and more text than a typical coffee table book. The book is beautifully bound. The cover and paper is top quality. The text covers about half on the actual expedition, and about half on the life, customs, and beliefs of the Sherpas. This book isn't just about the tragedy. It concerns itself more with the Sherpas. Some of the technical aspects of filming at high altitude was covered as well as effects of high altitude mountaineering on the human body. If you are looking for different viewpoints on the tragedy, this book doesn't really throw any more light on the subject. If you're interested in Sherpa culture, high altitude mountaineering, and a beautiful coffee table book, this is it.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-08 00:00>
I don't know where I was in May 1996 that I missed out on this real life story. This book did an excellent job of recapturing the events of that month on Everest. I was transported back as if the events were happening real time. The pictures really took me there (well as close as I'll most likely ever get). I was taken in by the majesty as well as the tragedy of this story and those who lost their lives to Everest and to their insatiable desire to reach the summit. As opposed to Krakauer's book, Into Thin Air (which I read after being so enthralled with this book) I enjoyed this more impartial view and factual account of all the factors surrounding a decision to attempt a summit bid to the top of the world. After reading this book I can understand a person's desire to climb the summit but cement my own desire to climb no higher that 10 or 11,000 feet. I also enjoyed learning about the filming of an IMAX presentation. An excellent and enjoyable read.
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Francis Mcinerney (MSL quote), Canada
<2007-02-08 00:00>
My Everest, "Experience", began with Mr. Krakauer and his book, Into Thin Air. I then read Mr. Boukreev's book, The Climb. Scattered amongst these were many other books about K2, incredible rescues, etc. The first and second books mentioned are outstanding, and while only those who were there know what flaws, if any, the books contain, they are both enthralling, frightening, and in the end horribly sad. They are however written by individuals, and like all first hand accounts expose a personal viewpoint, that here is all the more complex due to the conditions under which the climbers were trying to stay alive and sort out their thoughts. There has been criticism written about both accounts, I am guilty, but from spectators like us, criticism is inappropriate. We just were not there. This book brings balance to the tragic aspects of the climb, and through photographs that can only be rendered through the I-Max System, the best sense of the scale of the attempt, and the personal components that any individual must have to make the summit of Everest a goal. The only very disturbing news this book shared was the unconscionable behavior of one team, who's country I will not mention in the hope that these climbers represent an aberration of that Country's Citizenry. While books and debates will continue on this tragedy for some time to come, this book does an outstanding job of stepping back a bit, leaving bias behind, and finally, stands as a memorial of sorts for all those who were there. Again my thanks to all those who made the book available, and my condolences to those who suffered, perished, and to their families. They were and are all remarkable men and women. |
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