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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: High crimes
    sub title: the fate of Everest in an age of greed
  name:
    name part: Kodas, Michael.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2008
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 357 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Much has changed on Mount Everest in recent years. This is the first book to detail how the recent infusion of wealth into the mountains is reacting with the age-old lust for glory to draw crime to the highest places on the planet, and how a mountain's ability to reduce climbers to their essential selves is revealing villains as well as heroes, greed as well as selflessness. The change is caused both by a tremendous boom in traffic to the world's mountains and a new class of parasitic and predatory adventurer. Beatings, thefts, drugs, prostitution, coercion, threats, and abandonment on the highest slopes of Everest and other mountains have become the rule rather than the exception, and journalist Kodas describes many of these experiences and explores the larger issues they raise with thriller-like intensity.--From publisher description.
  note: Michael Kodas.
  note: Maps on end papers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-345) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Mountaineering
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Mountaineering
    topic: Corrupt practices
  subject:
    topic: Mountaineering
    geographic: Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
  classification: GV200.19.S63 K63 2008
  classification: 796.52/2
  identifier: 9781401302733
  identifier: 1401302734
  identifier: 2007021477
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 070529
    record change date: 20151109041051.0
    record identifier: in00002371393