Editorial Reviews :
From Booklist :
The year 2006 recorded Mount Everest’s deadliest season on record since 1996 (the killer season that spawned Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air).
To tell the story of the 2006 season, which made global headlines due to the troubling circumstances surrounding the death of a climber, journalist Heil, a climber himself, gives [...]

Biggest tragedy of Polish climbers in Himalayas on Mt. Everest -

- Mount Everest Expedition 1989.
Previously, the worst single accident on Mount Everest had occurred in 1989, when five Polish climbers died in an avalanche.
On May 27, 1989 died in avalanche on Lho La  : Mirosław Falco-Dąsal, Mirosław Gardzielewski, Zygmunt Andrzej Heinrich and Andrzej [...]

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International Mountain Guides directors Phil Ershler, George Dunn, Eric Simonson and Paul Baugher organize and lead climbing, trekking and mountaineering expeditions around the world, from the classic climbs of the Alps and Andes to the 8,000m peaks of the Himalayas. We continue to [...]