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000320647 1001_ $$aKodas, Michael.
000320647 24510 $$aHigh crimes :$$bthe fate of Everest in an age of greed /$$cMichael Kodas.
000320647 250__ $$a1st ed.
000320647 260__ $$aNew York :$$bHyperion,$$cc2008.
000320647 300__ $$a357 p., [16] p. of plates :$$bill. (some col.), maps ;$$c25 cm.
000320647 500__ $$aMaps on end papers.
000320647 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [343]-345) and index.
000320647 520__ $$aMuch has changed on Mount Everest in recent years. This is the first book to detail how the recent infusion of wealth into the mountains is reacting with the age-old lust for glory to draw crime to the highest places on the planet, and how a mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves is revealing villains as well as heroes, greed as well as selflessness. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic to the world's mountains and a new class of parasitic and predatory adventurer. Beatings, thefts, drugs, prostitution, coercion, threats, and abandonment on the highest slopes of Everest and other mountains have become the rule rather than the exception, and journalist Kodas describes many of these experiences and explores the larger issues they raise with thriller-like intensity.--From publisher description.
000320647 650_0 $$aMountaineering$$xSocial aspects.
000320647 650_0 $$aMountaineering$$xCorrupt practices.
000320647 650_0 $$aMountaineering$$zEverest, Mount (China and Nepal)
000320647 85200 $$bgen$$hGV200.19.S63$$iK63$$i2008
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