Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas

Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas by Child, Greg. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780879053185.

Above an eerie realm of endless snow covered spires . . . Each step appears increasingly impossible. Disorientation and fatigue make the climbers 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 worlds most remote regions - as he cracks the "death zone" above 26,000 feet, and attacks "by fair means" the worlds most perilous pinnacles.From Childs assault on Gasherbrum IV to a season of tragedy and carnage on K2, "Thin Air" is more than one mans 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 . . .