- Paperback: 220 pages
- Publisher: Pan Books (7 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330392271
- ISBN-13: 978-0330392273
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 224,523 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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On May 10, 1996 Lene Gammelgaard became the first Scandanavian woman to scale the summit of Mount Everest. On the descent the team was caught in a sudden storm that left eight dead. Gammelgaard recounts that fateful summit day and examines the triumph and tradgedy of modern mountaineering.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
contrary to the last review I enjoyed this book.
I have now read 4 books on the ascent of Everest. This is the personal story of a womens struggle to survive. I felt she was extremely sad at losing the leader of her expedition and elated at the survival of the all the others of her team.
She conveyed how hard it is to climb this mountain and credit to her for giving her account.
I have now read 4 books on the ascent of Everest. This is the personal story of a womens struggle to survive. I felt she was extremely sad at losing the leader of her expedition and elated at the survival of the all the others of her team.
She conveyed how hard it is to climb this mountain and credit to her for giving her account.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Gammelgaard's book gives a relatively in depth account of her successful 1996 Everest summit bid. She interestingly describes her motives and inspiration for climbing the world's highest mountain despite the massive risks involved.
However, she gives virtually no analysis of the catastrophic tragedy which unfolds around her, which resulted in 8 other climbers loosing their lives. I found it totally remarkable that she barely comments on who dies, how they died, and what the possible reasons for their deaths might be.
I read this account after reading Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air". Krakauer's book manages to give an insightful account of an expedition to Everest combined with an analysis of how and why the 8 people came to lose their lives. One may not agree with all the arguments put forward in "Into Thin Air" but at lest he makes an attempt to rationalize and understand what happened that day.
Were it not for reading this other account I would have hardly realized that a tragedy occurred in "Climbing High". To me it seemed a rather selfish book written by somebody who was either unable or unwilling to understand why those people died on Everest. She seemed far more concerned in bringing to the readers attention her own success rather then the overall failure of the several expeditions which attempted to summit Everest that day.
Format:Paperback
A wonderful book well written by a very brave climber.
It is a great story and a different side of the everest disaster from that of "In to thin air" and this seems to lay less blame on guides and tactics and rather the weather and nature of the mother of the earth that is Everest.
A very strong women and a wonderful read.
It is a great story and a different side of the everest disaster from that of "In to thin air" and this seems to lay less blame on guides and tactics and rather the weather and nature of the mother of the earth that is Everest.
A very strong women and a wonderful read.
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