Brian Mackey’s Reviews > On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined > Status Update

"Throughout the history of albinism, hard men have earnestly concocted rationalizations by which they believe they can outsmart the mountains. The inescapable fact is, however, that in the remote ranges there is no avoiding what climbers dryly call objective dangers — avalanches, rock fall, storms, hidden crevasses, and the like, the bobby traps laid by the mountain gods that