| Description |
15 discs (approx 1050 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
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Compact disc. |
| Performer |
Read by the author. |
| Summary |
After eight successful summits, Mount Everest guide Neil Quinn is confident he can handle anything the mountain throws his way, but then disaster strikes steps from the top, leaving him with a lot of questions and a very old, swastika-embellished ice axe that should never have been so high on the mountain. Not if Everest's meticulously documened history if accurate. But before Quinn can even catch his breath, the combined wrath of his vengeful employer and an angry client drives him out of the Himalayas, back to Europe where the newly blackballed English guide struggles to make ends meet and discover the truth lof what happened that fateful day. He soon uncovers the story of Josef Becker, a Nazi climber who sought the top of the world seventy years before, when Europe teetered on the brink of the Second World War. Quinn's innocent queries in to Becker's expedition soon have neo-Nazis, assassins, and histoy buffs vying to take possession of the axe- proof of apline superiority, and strong evidence that a German climber was the first to summit Mount Everest. |
| ISBN |
9781504710190 |
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150471093 |
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