Over the edge : the true story of the kidnap and escape of four climbers in Central Asia /
Child, Greg.
The scene: four young rock climbers - the oldest of them only 25 - are sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in the Pamir-Alai mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Awoken by gunfire at daybreak, they are kidnapped by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikstan and Afghanistan and is linked to al Qaeda. The kidnappers, themselves barely out of their teens, intend tio use their hostages as human shields and for ransom as they move across Kyrgyzstan. They hide the climbers by day and march them by night through freezing, treacherous mountain terrain, with little food and no clean water, and under the constant threat of execution."--Back cover.
Originally published : New York : Villard Books, c2002.
The scene: four young rock climbers - the oldest of them only 25 - are sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in the Pamir-Alai mountains of Kyrgyzstan. Awoken by gunfire at daybreak, they are kidnapped by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikstan and Afghanistan and is linked to al Qaeda. The kidnappers, themselves barely out of their teens, intend tio use their hostages as human shields and for ransom as they move across Kyrgyzstan. They hide the climbers by day and march them by night through freezing, treacherous mountain terrain, with little food and no clean water, and under the constant threat of execution."--Back cover.
Political kidnapping
Mountaineers
Terrorism
Hostages