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Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas
by Child, Greg
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0898865883
- ISBN 13
- 9780898865882
- Seller
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New Castle, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Mountaineers Books, 1988. Softcover. Like New. 6x0x9. Above an eerie realm of endless snow covered spires . . . Each step appears increasingly impossible. Disorientation and fatigue make the climber's head swim and the body threaten to collapse. For Greg Child it happened at 8,000 meters on an all-out alpine-style climb marked by tragic loss. In this spellbinding chronicle, Greg Child takes us step by nerve-shattering step through the world's most remote regions - as he cracks the "death zone" above 26,000 feet, and attacks "by fair means" the world's most perilous pinnacles. From Child's assault on Gasherbrum IV to a season of tragedy and carnage on K2, Thin Air is more than one man's story - it is an intimate portrait of mountains and those who climb them: what bonds clients together and what separates them, and what the mountains teach us all about life -- and death . . .
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010027684
- Title
- Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas
- Author
- Child, Greg
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0898865883
- ISBN 13
- 9780898865882
- Publisher
- Mountaineers Books
- Place of Publication
- Seattle, Washington, Usa
- Date Published
- 1988
- Size
- 6x0x9
- X weight
- 12 oz
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