- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Gibbs Smith; 1 edition (September 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0879053186
- ISBN-13: 978-0879053185
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 567 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,906,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Recipient of the 1987 American Alpine Club's Literary Award for excellence, Child chronicles three rigorous climbs he undertook on the Indian subcontinent in 1977, 1983, and 1986. In addition to a gripping personal narrative of one climber's physical, mental, and emotional triumphs and defeats, Child provides some political history and generally nonjudgmental observations on cultural, economic, and environmental conditions, as well as East-West differences. Although Thin Air would be improved by the addition of political maps, an index, and more rigorous copy editing, it is a worthwhile contribution to the literature of Himalayan climbs, deserving of a place alongside Fosco Maraini's Karakoram ( LJ 9/15/61) and Galen Rowell's In the Throne Room of the Mountain Gods (Sierra Club, 1977). Recommended for academic, public, and some special libraries.
- Harry E. Whitmore, Univ. of Maine-Augusta
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Harry E. Whitmore, Univ. of Maine-Augusta
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Now known as one of the great Himalayan mountaineers, Greg Child started out as purely a big-wall climber, famous for his ascents in the Yosemite Valley. His reputation in the valley earned him his first invitation to the Himalayas to climb with an elite class of mountaineers. With eloquent prose, Child describes his first three Himalayan climbs and his transformation into the climber he is today.
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Available Again. Excellant., Feb 21 1999
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This review is from: Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (Paperback)
One of the best books I have ever read or given to family/friends (I have bought 10+ copies since it was first published...too bad the original hard copy version is no longer available...mine is now in rough shape). My favorite climbing book of all time. Inspired. Be humbled with Child, then grab your gear... After this read, 'Deborah & Mountain of my Fear'.
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A Study In High Altitude Apprenticeship, Nov 17 2000
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This is a superb set of essays which describes the transfiguration of a gifted technical rock climber into a high- altitude mountaineer. In addition, it is a well-written, absorbing chronicle of high adventure in one of the most spectacular regions on earth (replete with dozens of stunning photographs).For me, the chapters on Broad Peak in the Karakoram were the highlight of this collection . Child describes the geography, people and culture of Pakistan as well as the logistics of the expedition with such clarity and force that it is not hard to begin imagining you are there with him before too long.
But it is his deep respect for all the people he encounters and climbs with that makes this narrative so rich and special. In this regard readers will be moved indeed when Child looses his friend and climbing partner Peter Thexton to pulmonary edema after turning back from the summit on Broad Peak (without getting quite to the top). This tragedy is related with such pathos and power. And it makes Child reconsider the entire enterprise to which he has devoted his life, a process that one rarely reads about in the writings of high altitude mountaineers who so often maintain a stoic attitude reflexively. One's life, Child ultimately decides, takes precedence over the conquest of 8,000 meter peaks; no matter how compelling and significant such a goal may seem.
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The best book on mountaineering ever written, Jun 7 1998
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This review is from: Thin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas (Hardcover)
This is the best book on mountaineer that has been written. Child is a fantastic writer, and the stories he tells are entirely engrossing. Find this book and read it!
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