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Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow: The Personal Costs of Climbing (Paperback)

by Maria Coffey (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd; New edition edition (1 Jan 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099436086
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099436089
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 386,059 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Climbers who court danger in the world's highest places risk far more than just their own skins. When tragedy strikes, what happens to the people who love them? Why would anyone choose to invest in a future with a high altitude climber? What is life like in the shadow of the mountain? Such questions have long been taboo within the international world of mountaineering. Now, Maria Coffey breaks this silence. She recounts climbers' stories of near-death experiences, and gives a voice to the families and loved ones of Chris Bonnington, Ed Viesturs, Anatoli Boukreev and Alex Lowe, amongst many other famous names. Her riveting marrative weaves tales of adventure with first-person accounts of the people left behind, highlighting the conflicting beauty, passion and devastation of this alluring obsession.


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'The defining thing about climbing is that it kills you. Not many people publicly question the fatality rate because it opens up a very nasty Pandora's box. People feel uncomfortable and think, no, no it's not like that. But you only have to look at the facts.' Joe Simpson

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Others Side on Mountaineering Emotions, 12 Sep 2004
By Jules king (EGHAM, SURREY United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This book provides as lucid as possible insight into living and having relationships with those driven to participate in the dangerous game of high altitude mountianeering and extereme climbing. Maria was well placed to record and write such a book having lived with Jo Tasker during heady days of climbing in the UK in the 1970's.
The book only in part tells the story of the adventures of these people. More it explores the emotional trials of those left at home while the adventurers are away, the passionate highs of their returns and reveals their deepest grief when they are lost to the mountians. The many accounts of the all consuming obsession, the acknowledgement list is astonishing, will reveal untold sides of the famous names of this sport, Bonnington, Scott, Lowe, Boukreev, Viestures, Boardman, Harlin ......., and if you climb too, undoubtedly you will come to question the choices you have made playing the climbing game.
A Banff Mountain Literature Award winning book, reading and experiencing this will complete a literary circle in Mountainering.
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