Anders Hattne Hattne itibaren Khan Pur, Uttar Pradesh, Inde
I'm a sucker for books on true crime and the law, and it was nice to read one from a Canadian perspective from one of the top defence lawyers in the country.
I enjoyed this book, I really did. However, I felt a little bogged down by all the technical rock climbing terms --and I am a fan of rock climbing adventure stories! It's just that, many, many times I had trouble getting a mental image of exactly what these two guys were trying to climb or do. I don't feel as if the book was very well written. Still, it is worth a read just to hear such an amazing first - person account of a brush with death high on an icy mountain. My heart was racing! Too bad I can't say the same about my eyes!
I feel as if I've read "this book" before...it's part Mountains Beyond Mountains, and part any-John-Krakauer-title. White-man-with-fascinating-history-and-personal-loss moves mountains (after a history of climbing them) to Do Great Good. That said, I'm a sucker for that kind of book...not so much the macho "rugged mountain trekker" bit, which I find I can relate very little to, but the stories of activists who refuse to accept "no" and achieve surprising success, making a difference in the lives of others. Books like these shame me for how little I've done, and motivate me to double my efforts.