Broughton Coburn
Autor(a) de Everest : Mountain Without Mercy
About the Author
Broughton Coburn has lived in the Himalaya for two of the past three decades, and is the author of five books. He is the Special Projects Director for the American Himalayan Foundation
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Obras por Broughton Coburn
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Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1951-06-02
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
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Everest : Mountain Without Mercy por Broughton Coburn
Great companion book to Into Thin Air (Krakauer) as they both present different perspectives on the Everest climbs going on at the same time, this one from the perspective of the IMAX crew trying to make a movie at the same time. Of course, this book does a better job with the photos :-)
I really enjoyed reading this book. It was well organized and well written. Coburn did a great job of making the large cast of participants human and memorable. The descriptions of the actual summiting up Everest were suspenseful. Highly readable and an interesting contrast to descriptions of later Everest climbs like Krakauer's "Into Thin Air".
I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
I received this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.
Tense exploration of the 1996 disaster on Everest which claimed several lives. Explores what makes people take on these challenges. Interesting and, actually, a bit scary. I listened to the audio book and it was well done. I might not have read the book on paper or digitally, but the audio version brought the story home.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay's "Touching my Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest" is really an excellent book. It was wonderful to read about Everest from a Sherpa's perspective.
Jamling, of course, is the son of Tenzing Norgay, who was the first to ascend Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling himself was on an expedition up Everest with a team carrying an IMAX camera in the tragic 1996 season when 12 climbers lost their lives -- most on the same day in the teeth of a ferocious storm.
Norgay's book is a great mixture of those two stories, along with a terrific amount of information about Sherpa culture and Buddhism. This really makes for a fascinating read and a great accompaniment to the two more well-known books about the 1996 Everest season.… (mais)
Jamling, of course, is the son of Tenzing Norgay, who was the first to ascend Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling himself was on an expedition up Everest with a team carrying an IMAX camera in the tragic 1996 season when 12 climbers lost their lives -- most on the same day in the teeth of a ferocious storm.
Norgay's book is a great mixture of those two stories, along with a terrific amount of information about Sherpa culture and Buddhism. This really makes for a fascinating read and a great accompaniment to the two more well-known books about the 1996 Everest season.… (mais)
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