Title: Too Technical
Review: It seems that everyone wants to profit from the recent Everest disaster. I did a lot of research on it, and in my opinion, the best book written about it is still Into Thin Air. Skip this book, as well as Ken Kamler's Doctor on Everest (who was on Camp II all the time), both of which are filled with tremendous conceit and lack of flow. This book was especially a pain to read, because of a lot of technical info that resembles an instruction manual. The stories of the childhood are especially clichéd and melodramatic. I think the audiovisual media is still the best way to depict the excitement and dangers of mountain climbing.
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