La febre del cim

Over time, Summit Fever has become a legendary book that forever changed the idyllic view of Mount Everest, the world's highest peak. With direct and captivating writing, Krakauer guides us, step by step, on his journey from Kathmandu to the top of Everest, in a chilling story in which he details, with brutal literary precision, all the misfortunes and mistakes committed on a tragic expedition. When, finally, on May 10, 1996, he managed to crown the summit, he was suffering from the consequences of lack of sleep and oxygen. At the start of the descent, at 8,848 meters of altitude, about twenty companions were still trying to reach the top, not realizing that the sky had begun to cloud over. The members of that trading expedition had paid a fortune to summit Everest, and some, possessed by summit fever, paid with their lives.