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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greedby: Michael Kodas  List Price: $24.95 Amazon.com's Price: $16.47 You Save: $8.48 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 796.522 EAN: 9781401302733 ISBN: 1401302734 Label: Hyperion Manufacturer: Hyperion Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: February 05, 2008 Publisher: Hyperion Release Date: February 05, 2008 Studio: Hyperion Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, and the unique perils and challenges of Mount Everest, none details 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, 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 mountains and a new class of parasitic and predatory adventurer. Some of the stories included in the book are the tragic story of Nils Antezana, a climber who died on Everest after he was abandoned by his guide, and the author's own summit story, as he participated in the Connecticut Everest Expedition, which would never have followed George Dijjmarescu and Lhakpa Sherpa to the Himalaya had news of the couple's climb with the Romanian team the previous year made it to the United States. But as they neared the frigid peril of Everest, the charming couple turned increasingly hostile. Women on the team held little power and were instead threatened, stalked, and harassed before a final assault. Those that tried to stand against the violence, theft and intimidation found the worst of the peril they encountered on Everest had followed them home to Connecticut. Beatings, thefts, drugs, prostitution, coercion, threats, and abandonment on the highest slopes of Everest and other mountains have become the rule rather than the exception, and Kodas describes many of these experiences and explores the larger issues these stories raise with thriller-like intensity. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - SAVE YOUR MONEYA very poorly written book in terms of organization. But it confirms my impression that people who climb Everest are mostly narcissistic, selfish, self-centered people whose lives are meaningless. Climb the Rocky Mountains or go help someone if you are so bored with life. The author is no different psychologically than the other selfless losers who go to Everest. Rating: - The Hellbent Usually Get ThereAnyone who hasn't heard by now that Everest has in recent years become a magnet for fools, scoundrels, parasites, and mountebanks of every type, variety and nationality must have been living in a cave. This work gathers together abundant further evidence of this lamentable fact. Kodas provides enough examples of villainy to make for reading both fascinating and depressing. He also describes considerable gratuitous tragedy. The detritus on the mountain contains not just used oxygen ... Read More Rating: - A Hodge-Podge of Disorganized Climbing AdventuresI found this book poorly organized. It was as if the author threw all the pages of his manuscript in the air and once they hit the floor he gathered them up and bound them into a book. It jumps from Everest to South America to Pakistan to the US and back again and it has very little to do with the secondary title "The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed". If you are hoping for another "In to Thin Air" quality book you are going to have to look elsewhere. One of the previous reviewers ... Read More Rating:  - Interesting but not exactly what I expected...First off I paid way too much for this book. Buy it used, I don't think it's worth the price I paid. It starts out interesting but bogs down. I was expecting to read about a long list of incidents on the mountain. Instead the author briefly touches on a few incidents but focuses mostly on two bad individuals and what they've done, Gustavo L. and George D. I have no doubt that these guys are what the author says, but I got the point without all the extra detail. In addition, half ... Read More Rating: - Don't botherWaste of time. Self-indulgent musings from an also-ran. Didn't make it the second trip either. Hmmmm 
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