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Ive spent the past couple of weeks reading a lot of mountaineering books, including the incredible High and Epic collections. This book was more interesting from a sociological perspective than an historical one. It should have been titled, The Me Generation Climbs a Mountain and Lives (Somehow) to Tell About It.There is some detail about the actual climb and route(s) chosen, but most of the book is about interpersonal relationships and navel gazing on the part of the author/narrator as well as those who contributed to the book. If this team had been climbing during the 50s, the rest of the mountaineers would have thrown them off a cliff after a week. If theyd been climbing with Messner, hed have thrown each of them off a cliff. Without oxygen. After the first day. The whining! The arguments! The touchy-feely we cleared the air and now everythingll be great! attitude.No, really, the previous generation was wiser: keep your feelings to yourself and stifle, stifle, stifle, all the way to the top, because when you have to live with people under very stressful conditions for a long time, even small things get magnified into major issues; and this group started out with HUGE things.Some of the attitudes displayed were also condescending. The author thinks little of the Japanese conquest of K2, and makes a snide remark early on about how he has no doubt they will find lots of Japanese trash on the mountain left over from the huge Japanese expedition. As the book wends on, oddly enough, he finds loads of Polish trash and rope left, even excavating what he terms a garbage dump. But the only Japanese trash he finds on the mountain is a soup wrapper! I dont think, in all his navel-gazing, he realised how disrespectful and denigrating he came across, because Im sure hed have beaten his breast over that too.The epilogue was very satisfying: after the temper tantrum thrown by one of the climbers, it was interesting to read about karmic retribution, if you will. But Id pick up Ed Hillarys book to reread (again) before Id read this book again. Edmund Hillary actually seems to enjoy climbing mountains, and is able to convey the wonder and excitement he felt climbing even small peaks in the Himalayas.PS: My husband points out that the book has a magnificent collection of photographs. This is very true.
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