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It seemed like any other season on Everest. Ten expeditions from around the world were preparing for their summit push, gathered to-gether to try for mountaineering's ultimate prize. Twenty-four hours later, eight of those climbers were dead, victims of the most devastating storm ever to hit Everest. On the North face of the mountain, a British expedition found itself in the thick of the drama. Against all odds, film-maker Matt Dickinson and professional climber Alan Hinkes managed to battle through hurricane-force winds to reach the summit. In Death Zone, Matt Dickinson describes the extraordinary event that put the disaster on the front cover of Time and Newsweek. The desperate attempts of teams on the southern side of the mountain. . . fatal errors that led to the deaths of three Indian climbers on the North Ridge. . . and the moving story of Rob Hall, the New Zealand guide who stayed with his stricken client, and paid with his life. Based on interviews with the surviving climbers and the first-hand experience of having lived through the killer storm, this book tackles issues at the very heart of mountaineering. Death Zone is an extra-ordinary story of human triumph, folly and disaster.
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You'll need oxygen just to read this book,
By pols@clara.net (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm (Paperback)
Having read Into Thin Air and The Climb and also Addicted to Danger and A Slender Thread in quick succession, I was doubtful that The Death Zone would add anything new or keep my interest, especially with respect to the 1996 Everest disaster. But it was a totally enthralling read. For some reason, perhaps because the author isn't a climbing afficionado but instead a rather clumsy film-maker, or perhaps because the book is well written, with a fair dose of dry humour, the book is totally engaging. You really feel the climb, breath by breath, the alieness of the mountain - and the equipment - and also the strangeness of the ultimate survival instinct that comes into play at high altitude, whilst people are dying or dead in the same region. It's a good book that keeps you gripped and is a good addition to other books written about the disaster at the time.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Truly compelling.,
This review is from: Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm (Paperback)
"One of those books that you simply can't put down" - sounds like a cliche, but it sums up Matt's book fully.It is not a long book, but is one that keeps pulling you back - Matt transports you right back to Everest in 1996 and it keeps moving until the end. This is a book that is perfect for airports etc, as it makes you oblivious to what is happening around you. I am not a mountaineer, but this book makes for compelling reading with its observations. It is written in a way that makes it easy to grasp the enormity of what is happening, without the reader needing to have had similar experiences. It is every bit as graphic as if it had been a film.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A book that takes you to the top and back down again,
By A Customer
This review is from: Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm (Paperback)
Having read "Into Thin Air" (absolutely fantastic and a must read - my No. 1 Everest book) I thought it would be impossible to read another book that I could enjoy as much about the ascents of Everest that fateful year. However, I climbed every step of the way with Matt whilst reading this book. I shared with him the highs, the lows and the complete one-mindedness that takes you beyond every human limitation. This book gives you an insight into what it is like to take on Mother Nature at her very worst - it is not a game of winning, you merely survive (and even survival can come at a cost). An excellent read, it takes you to the very top and back down again and leaves you no questions as to the level of ambition, committment, pain, despair, faith and sheer focus that is needed to take you to 29,029 feet and stand on the roof of the World. A book I will read again and again.
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