Ombre sul ghiacciaio

Year: 1999 Pages: 188 In 1992, on Everest, a lone Indian climber died of exhaustion near the South Col, while other climbers passed by him without stopping, heading towards the summit. Could anything have been done to save him? Maybe not. But not even comfort him? At least hold his hand, be next to him in his last moments of life... Similar cases seem to be repeating themselves more and more often in the Himalayas. Joe Simpson, who in 1985 happened to be abandoned in a crevasse on a mountain in the Peruvian Andes, remembers the horror of loneliness in the face of death and asks himself: what's the point of reaching a peak if you then lose sight of the values more elementary than human coexistence?