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Kingdoms of Experience: Everest, the Unclimbed Ridge by Andrew Greig

psteve's review

3.0

An account of an attempt to summit Everest from the Northeast, which hadn't been done at the time. Greig does a good job of showing the misery of making such a climb, and how it feels to be there, what you do, how people get along, etc. I read the Kindle version, which suffers from the typical Kindle problem of poor illustrations and renderings of things like maps, which would have been essential for this book. Still, you do get a real sense of the place and the travails of living there.