Maria Coffey
Auteur de Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow: The Personal Costs of Climbing
A propos de l'auteur
Maria Coffey is the author and coauthor of ten books. She lives with her husband, Dag Goering, on Vancouver Island, Canada
Séries
Œuvres de Maria Coffey
Explorers of the Infinite: The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes-and What They Reveal About Near-Death… (2008) 34 exemplaires
Jungle Islands 3 exemplaires
Oeuvres associées
Epics on Everest: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peak (2003) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- British Columbia, Canada
Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada - Relations
- Goering, Dag (husband)
Tasker, Joe (partner)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 2
- Membres
- 449
- Popularité
- #54,622
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 15
- ISBN
- 48
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 2
Maria Coffey confronted one of the harshest realities of mountaineering when her partner Joe Tasker disappeared on the Northeast Ridge of Everest in 1982. In Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow, Coffey offers an intimate portrait of adventure and the conflicting beauty, passion, and devastation of this alluring obsession. Through interviews with the world's top climbers, or their widows and families-Jim Wickwire, Conrad Anker, Lynn Hill, Joe Simpson, Chris Bonington, Ed Viesturs, Anatoli Boukreev, Alex Lowe, and many others-she explores what compels men and women to give their lives to the high mountains. She asks why, despite the countless tragedies, the world continues to laud their exploits. With an insider's understanding, Coffey reveals the consequences of loving people who pursue such risk-the exhilarating highs and inevitable lows, the stress of long separations, the constant threat of bereavement, and the lives shattered in the wake of climbing accidents.
Where the Mountain Casts Its Shadow is a powerful, affecting and important book that exposes the far reaching personal costs of extreme adventure.
My Review: The book was very interesting. Sad. Many of the climbers seem selfish, addicts who choose risking their lives for notoriety over their families.
The bad thing about this book is that it is very, very redundant. The theme of the pursuit of climbing the highest peaks and the stress it puts on the families of the climbers is the book premise but at times I felt like Coffey just repeated herself over and over again. I skipped a chapter or two because I felt like I had just read that part in the previous chapter. How many times do we have to read about the same climber's death and the toll it took on his family?
If you're into adventure books or mountain climbing maybe this would be a good read, but I found it a bit boring at times, a lot sad, but interesting nonetheless.… (plus d'informations)