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Posted by Bill S on May 17, 2007 at 12:55:38 am EDT
In reply to Re: First all-Sherpa team summits Everest posted by Dave on May 16, 2007 at 6:57:00 pm EDT

Ed V isn't that great a writer, which is why Dave Roberts ghosted most of the book. It is, I have to agree, rather an untypical format and narrative method for a climber's adventure book. Maybe it was more interesting to me, since I know Ed (slightly), and because it answered some questions I had been a little reluctant to ask him about directly.

I will also have to recommend Dave Roberts' own book On the Ridge Between Life and Death. It is a big departure from his early works (Deborah, Mountain of my Fear, etc), and I think you will recognize some of the stylistics that carried over into his ghosting of Ed's book.

Hopefully, some of the people who posted back in the Everest thread admiring the "great adventure" of the Discovery Channel show series will read these books and get a better understanding of what climbing is really all about.

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