Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
by Child, Greg
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0375506098
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506093
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Villard Books, 2002. Softcover. Very Good. 6x1x9. In Very Good+ condition. Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of Americaâs best young rock climbers, the oldest of them only twenty-five, were sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall, in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan, in central Asia. By daybreak, they would be taken at gunpoint by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and which is linked to Osama bin Ladenâs Al Qaeda network. The desperadoesâthemselves barely out of their teensâintended to use their hostages as human shields and for ransom as they moved across Kyrgyzstan. They hid the climbers by day and marched them by night through freezing, treacherous mountains, with little food, no clean water, and the constant threat of execution. The four would see a fellow hostage, a Kyrgyz soldier, executed before their eyes. And in a remarkable life-and-death crucible over six terrifying days, they would be forced to choose between saving their own lives and committing an act none of them thought they ever could.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010026044
- Title
- Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
- Author
- Child, Greg
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0375506098
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506093
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2002
- Size
- 6x1x9
- X weight
- 18 oz
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.