Reviews for Hikes and Walks on Mount Hood: Government Camp and Timberline Lodge Area

The average rating for Hikes and Walks on Mount Hood: Government Camp and Timberline Lodge Area based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-21 00:00:00 Kjl Shh I think I'm in love. Joe Simpson tackles the really big questions in this book: what are our obligations to our fellow humans? To the mountains? To the people who inhabit those mountains? He includes in this book a full colour two page spread of the 1989? photo of the camp on Everest, complete with dead body and oxygen canisters and trash strewn about. He examines some of the recent mountaineering and trekking tragedies and compares them to earlier expeditions. I feel the same way about a lot of these things that Joe Simpson does, namely if you're willing to step over a dead (or dying!) body to get to the summit you deserve to die on the mountain yourself, and if you're willing to haul oxygen bottles up the mountain to make it "easier" to climb you can damn well haul them right back down again.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-10-15 00:00:00 David Coupe Bit of a 50/50 book this one, it's a little uneven and veers all over the place as Simpson clunkily tries to jam together a story of the '96 Everest disaster, his own thoughts on Mountaineering ethics and a (slightly pointless) coverage of his own Everest attempt. There are some really interesting and brilliant insights in here though so you still come away wanting to read more of his books but is all a bit of a muddle this one. A shame because he has some really important things to say here.