Dark Shadows Falling
The author ofTouching the  Voidinterweaves 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.--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.