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Title: Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0898865905 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.27
Rating: 4
Summary: The book will leave you thinking
Comment: The book is only remotedly about an attempt to climb a magnificent peak of Bumori. It is rather a philosophical debate over mountains and people climbing them.
Joe Simpson gives examples of climbers tragedies and shows how the others around react to them. Some people show remarkable effort to save their colleagues while others show no interest whatsoever. Simpson is wondering what motivates people do react the way they react and also tries to define some kind of a standard ethic that climbers should follow.
Simpson criticizes the commercialization of mountaineering. This is a point where you might disagree with him. It is understandable that the commercialization annoys the orthodox climbers since it brings devastation of mountains, garbage to what used to be a virgin land, unnecessary deaths, etc. On the oher hand, mountains do not belong exclusively to the real mountaineers and the trend would be almost impossible to stop.
In any case, the book should be on the shelf of every man or woman interesting in mountains. I would recommend to combine this book with Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer.
Rating: 5
Summary: What an experience to read joe's books.
Comment: Joe's style and sensitive nature keeps you looking for the next book. His wealth of real life experience together with his ability to write permeate thoughout his books. As a climber he makes me think of my own ethics and and morals when it comes to climbing and the people I do it with I too believe that Joe is right about the decaying ethics that have permeated the very fabric of our mountains and the culture of people that climb and live in these parts. I too can empathise with Joe to some extent of the lonileness of being lost or injured in these wild place. I now have read all of Joe's books some of them twice and eagley await the next instalment from a writer and climber that I would one day love to meet. Keep on writng Joe but more importantly keep the cimbing community honest with your stark revalations and blinding truths about what is going on in our mountains today.
Rating: 5
Summary: my favorite Joe Simpson book
Comment: Let's face it, Touching The Void is such a fantastic story that it has to be Simpson's best book. It's certainly his most famous.
But this one is my favorite, I think because it is more about "climbing" than about "Joe Simpson".
Simpson makes a compelling case for the idea that the ethics of mountaineering have been harmed by the commercialization of climbing.
I usually figure that any story about "the good old days" when people were noble is likely BS. But that's not really what Simpson is claiming here. Instead, he is really talking more about the differences between a small and self-selected community (like "climbing" 30 years ago) and a large and public activity (like "climbing" today).
I'm not sure if non-climbers would really appreciate this book, but as a climber I have found it invaluable for helping me to frame my own questions about what it means to be a climber, and ultimately a human being.
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Title: Touching the Void : The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0060916540 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: This Game of Ghosts by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0898864607 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Storms of Silence by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0898865123 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Boardman Tasker Omnibus: Savage Arena, the Shining Mountain, Sacred Summits, Everest the Cruel Way by Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker ISBN: 0898864364 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $38.00 |
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Title: The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson ISBN: 0898869412 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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