Fantastic book! | Everest : Mountain Without Mercy

Quite Simply, The Best | Everest : Mountain Without Mercy | Broughton Coburn

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	• Everest : Mountain Without Mercy Broughton Coburn National Geographic, 1997 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 50 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Must Read!

If you are a Mt. Everest "groupie" like me, you need this book! After reading "Into Thin Air," I became fascinated with this mountain and the humans who try to conquer it every season. Next, I read "The Climb." I enjoyed both, but it wasn't until I saw "Everest: Mountain Without Mercy" that I really had a feel for the power and majesty of the mountain. The photographs are stunning. Finally, I could picture what I had read in the two previous books. The articles that are interspersed with the story of the IMAX expedition are also fascinating to read. Reading this book has been the culmination of my Everest trifecta! I highly recommend it to anyone who loves the mountain.

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Fantastic book!

Whether you are interested in mountain climbing, science, medicine, history, or anthropology you will find this a great book. I was stunned by the beauty of the pictures and the fine quality of the book, especially at this price. It easily holds its own with fifty and sixty dollar "coffee table" books. Even my children enjoyed looking at the many photographs and learning right along with me. This is terrific!

Quite Simply, The Best

Reading "Into Thin Air" and "The Climb" gave me a feel for the tragedy that was Everest in 1996. But something was missing. I never felt that I understood what the mountain was truly like. It was not until I opened this spectacular book that I got a sense of the real Everest. The large format of this book, and the amazing color photos will thrill any fan of Everest. The story of the IMAX expedition, while exciting, becomes secondary to the story of the mountain itself. I loved the way other articles were interspersed among the chapters. I enjoyed reading Hillary's reflections; the stories of the Sherpa people and their culture; the geologic history of the Himalaya. If you are, like me, a Mt. Everest "groupie," opening this book is as close as you'll get to being there.

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Great Work

This book is for everyone. It has a wonderful story line, along with an amazing insight into Sherpa culture, as well as little sidebars about Hinduism, high-altitude, and the logistics pof mountaineering.

Beautiful but educational!

I have been interested in high altitude mountain climbing for a while. This book has been a catalist in the classroom. Kids have no idea the risks taken by those who would climb such a mountain. When they see great photos of the reality of high altitude, it changes their perspective on life. Skate boarding/extreme sports are minimized when they see the frozen corps of someone who tried to summit Mt. Everest. Geography takes on a whole different perspective!!! I wish more teachers would tap into that extreme experience so many of our youth are grasping for.

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