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Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story Of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil
In May 2006 climbers hoping to summit Mount Everest were yet again visited by disaster that by the end of the month would see another eleven names added to the deadly toll of lives claimed trying to climb the 29,000 feet to conquer the highest mountain in the world and making 2006 the worst season on record.
The May 2006 disaster drew eerie parallels to the events of a decade earlier when ten climbers and guides perished in storms that lashed the summit. After the 1996 Everest disaster many firsthand accounts were released looking at the events and reasons behind the tragic loss of life with the most notable being the bestselling book Into Thin Air.
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- A. L. Berridge On Writing 'Honour and the Sword'
- Radio Free Europe's 'Crusade for Freedom': Rallying Americans Behind Cold War Broadcasting, 1950-1960
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- Charles Dickens's England - Sample Pages
- On Writing 'Finest Years'
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- Death or Victory - Dan Snow
- Ship of Rome - John Stack
- Flint and Silver - John Drake
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In The Books Section
- Dark Summit: The Extraordinary True Story Of Everest's Most Controversial Season by Nick Heil
- Fleeced!: How We've Been Betrayed By The Politicians, Bureaucrats And Bankers - And How Much They've Cost Us - David Graig and Matthew Elliot
- A. L. Berridge On Writing 'Honour and the Sword'
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