Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia - Hardcover

Child, Greg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375506098 ISBN 13: 9780375506093

Verlag: Villard Books, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

A true-life adventure thriller re-creates the ordeal of four young American mountain climbers who were kidnapped at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists in Central Asia, their six-day ordeal at the hands of their abductors, and their dramatic life-and-death escape by pushing their captor over a cliff. 100,000 first printing.

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Greg Child is a writer for Outside. He is the author of three books, most recently the climbing memoir Postcards from the Ledge. A mountaineer who has summited K2 and Everest, Child lives near Moab, Utah.

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limbers swept up in the events of August 2000 are people little different from the rest of us. Though their climbing skills taught them a thing or two about survival, it was their individual characters and their compassion for one another that kept them alive. Like anyone who has witnessed warfare and death, they feel pain over the memories that they recount in this story. It is their hope that others may learn from their experience.” ―from the Introduction<br><br>Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America’s best young rock climbers, the oldest of them only twenty-five, were sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall, in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan, in central Asia. By daybreak, they would be taken at gunpoint by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and which is linked to Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network. The desperadoes―themselves barely o

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• Verlag: Villard Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375506098
• ISBN 13: 9780375506093
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
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