Katie’s Reviews > Ghosts of Everest: The Search for Mallory & Irvine > Status Update

DNF at 50%
I love reading anything Everest, but this was a difficult book to get through. It spent most of the time describing the personalities of the hikers and how the team was a perfect match for the climb instead of telling the story. I wanted to like it, however, it was slow and dragged on.

“He said to me that what he would have to face would be more like war than adventure, and that he did not believe he would return alive.”

“During a couple of hours of climbing, you can experience more than you would in a week elsewhere. Your senses are completely alert when you re climbing—hearing, breathing, smelling everything—and you begin to get a glimpse of how deep the feeling of being alive can really become.”