Dark Summit
Subtitle: The True Story of Everest's Most Controversial Season
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: February 3, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780307356437
Subjects: Biographies & Memoirs -- Specific Groups -- Adventurers & Explorers; Science -- Nature & Ecology -- Mountains; Sports -- Mountaineering -- Mountain Climbing; Travel -- Asia -- Nepal; Travel -- Specialty Travel -- Adventure
First sentence: First, the climbers bought bottles of beer in the lobby; then they hiked the five flights of stairs to the hotel's rooftop terrace, where they faced west to watch the eclipse begin above Kathmandu.