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Title: The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson ISBN: 0-8129-3340-0 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.26 (35 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Different View of the 1996 Tragedies
Comment: Matt Dickinson has written an enjoyable and easy read of conquering the North Face of Everest during the tragic 1996 season. Dickinson looks at May's killer storm from a different perspective, both figuratively and literally. While the ill-fated Fischer and Hall expeditions were climbing into catastrophe on the south side, Dickinson and his team were struggling their way up the north side of the mountain, facing a different set of challenges - and fatalities.
Dickinson sees the entire climbing adventure through the eyes of a non-expert. By his own admission he isn't a mountain climber in the truest sense of the word. This brings a fresh approach to Everest books, non-technical, gritty, and easier to relate to. He also has no axe to grind with regard to the controversies surrounding the 1996 deaths.
While some have criticized his detailed descriptions the physical demands the climb puts on a body, I think anyone who has climbed too high, hiked too far, or biked too long, can relate to the pain and exhaustion he writes about.
The Other Side of Everest doesn't have the drama of Into Thin Air, but it is a worthwhile read and nicely fills in your Everest library. A must for anyone still interested in the events of the 1996 climbing season.
Rating: 4
Summary: KILLER STORM...KILLER STORY...
Comment: This is a gripping account of the deadly storm which engulfed Mt. Everest in May 1996 and left a trail of dead bodies in its wake on the south face of the mountain. The author writes about the storm as experienced on the north face: hence, the title of the book. He writes about the tragedy which engulfed the north side of Everest, in which death also came calling.
The author provides many details of his expedition's ascent which is sure to fascinate and delight all Everest junkies. The narrative is compelling and absorbing. The tragic deaths of three members of the Indian team who reached the summit, only to become engulfed by the storm during their descent down the precipitous north face of Everest, trapping them over night, is heartbreaking. The callousness of a Japanese expedition who, on their ascent to the summit the following day, passed the Indian climbers, still alive but near death, and refused to aid them in their extremis, is truly shocking.
The author also rehashes the effect of the storm on the south face and the heavy toll of life it exacted there. Jon Krakauer, however, does it better in his gripping book "Into Thin Air". In the final analysis, the author, Matt Dickinson, a novice climber who first ascended Everest that May 1996, comes across as a self-absorbed, selfish sort of lout. Notwithstanding his own personal shortcomings, however, his book still makes for an absorbing read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent! Excellent!
Comment: I didn't think I would find a book to top "Into Thin Air" and one that would take a different view of the 1996 tragedy. I could NOT put this book down. I made it last a week and didn't want it to end. Dickinson really achieves putting the reader into the story. I live under the High Sierra and have summited Mt.Whitney in Calif. Driving by that mountain that seems to shoot straight up into the sky, I remembered Dickinson's description of the Himalaya valley floors that were at 18,000 feet. I imagined the towering 14,000 foot peaks of the Sierra buried under 4,000 feet of dirt and that would be only the valley FlOOR of the Himalays with 11,000 feet to go to the summit of Everest. THEN I could visualize the unbelievable height of this mountain. THEN I could realize the effort it takes (and what it takes OUT of someone) to get to the summit.
Dickinson's writing is funny, tragic and extremely descriptive of the area, the people and the hard-to-imagine-summit he finally made. I know his wife would like him to stay home, but I hope he makes another trip to the Himalayas and writes another book!
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Title: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston Dewalt ISBN: 0312965338 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains by Jon Krakauer ISBN: 0385488181 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears ISBN: 0684865459 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 17 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest by Beck Weathers ISBN: 0440237084 Publisher: Dell Publishing Company Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Doctor on Everest: Emergency Medicine at the Top of the World - A Personal Account of the 1996 Disaster by Kenneth Kamler ISBN: 1585745995 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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