--- product_id: 12475625 title: "High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed" brand: "michael kodas" price: "VT8760" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/12475625-high-crimes-the-fate-of-everest-in-an-age-greed store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed **Brand:** michael kodas **Price:** VT8760 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed by michael kodas - **How much does it cost?** VT8760 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/12475625-high-crimes-the-fate-of-everest-in-an-age-greed) ## Best For - michael kodas enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted michael kodas brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed ## Images ![High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51kAG32jjyL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stay Home, There's More Wild In Your Backyard than on Everest *by R***Z on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 9, 2010* Very depressing read. I cannot concur on the expeditions, but the amount of people heading into Everest, their total disregard for the environment and their supreme egos make even being around the area from Namche into Everest a very unpleasant experience.If it were not for the views and the wonderous mountains I think one would do better to climb more isolated mountains with fewer groups, less garbage closer to home. I wouldn't even want to be around most of the unbounded egos described in this book. Seems to defy the very notion of why one mountaineers in the first place.Having been the Himalayas a few times over the past 20 yrs I was immediately struck by the fact that the carrying capacity of environment is out of balance with the number of people there. It has reached the point where you are seriously hindered by large groups of tourists with their own agenda and their own egos to assuage. At times I have stood beside the trail into Everest base camp and had to wait 30 minutes for the crowd of German tourists to pass by me.The attitudes are a problem as well. Mr. Kodas describes the cold egotistical distance that surrounds some camps, literally camped beside one another, yet who do not talk to each other. This state of affairs extends to the mountain where common courtesy is ground into the dust as the desire for profit for the expeditions and the desire for a fully placated ego for the new urban-corporate-sports-gym climber dominate the mountain. Greed. Money and sex are never far beneath the service as Kodas relates.I personally could relate to the attitudes of some of the people Kordas describes. I will never forget the lady we deemed the "Canadian Cow" from Montreal, who severely reproached me for washing a child's parasitic wounds with soap and then bandaging her legs, giving her teh soap and telling her to wash regularly.... "ohhhh, you shouldn't do that with them, it just encourages them... besides, who knows... they might have HIV" (???!!). Needless to say, this spirit of outright meanness is not only profoudly depressing, but seems, according to Kordas, to be getting worse and worse.Everest is still the highest, but there are greater challenges in the outback of Australia, or the nether reaches of so many unclimbed peaks of Canada, or Russia or South America or other places in the Himalayas... but no longer on Everest.Very nice book, but depressing at places. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thought Provoking & Sad *by B***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 9, 2012* I may be on the fringe of popular opinion here but I find it difficult to feel sorry for Dr. Antezana and his fate. I think his guide Gustavo has serious psychological issues and needs to be be dealt with legally, but seriously......Dr. Antezana made some very poor choices. He was suspicious, distrustful of Gustavo and unhappy with his level of support but ignored all of his intuition and climbed anyway. As an athlete (but not an extreme one) I understand how you can be driven toward an objective and blind to ominous feelings and in that regard, I'm empathetic. Nonetheless, the victim must accept the responsibility for being foolish. Climbing Everest is not a walk in the park!I feel badly for the people who felt guilty because they didn't say something to encourage Dr. Antezana not to climb; thinking they could have avoided his fate. To me, no one could have avoided his fate but himself. He was not an 18 year old giving into peer pressure, he was a 69 year old, intelligent, successful man who made a deadly choice to climb Everest. All the other examples of poor behavior and bad choices in this book just means there were more foolish people with money and time on their hands who like to participate in extreme sports (snowboarding down Everest, really?). And for each of them, there was someone to sell them the experience based on what they could afford.What is truly sad is that this pathetic side of humankind overshadows the effort serious climbers take to prepare and train for this phenomenal endeavor; the climbers who give up on the dream to help another in distress and/or risk their life for another. This author gave us the darkside.This book is not a positive story of human triumph over adversity; it's a painful and sad story of some ugly human ambition and risk taking, which will continue so long as people push the limits of physical abilities to try to tempt fate. Some folks will "jump on the bandwagon" of the latest extreme craze and end up dead because they will not be prepared and will foolishly put their trust in the untrustworthy just so they can say they did it!Good book, sad book. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ A mixed bag *by J***L on Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 2, 2013* It has taken me a while to get round to reading this book but once i'd started it was very difficult to put it down. The author certainly pulls no punches, names names and is forthright in his allegations. This is all good. I don't know how many mountaineers or those interested in the mountains themselves will get out of this book though. It is mainly about the personalities concerned rather than a "hard" climbing book so this needs to be borne in mind if choosing to purchase it. I did also find the author's trait of jumping the narrative back and forth in time, and between different viewpoints sometimes a bit irritating. Perhaps a straight forward chronological account would have suited me better but nevertheless this is still a very informative and valuable book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vu/products/12475625-high-crimes-the-fate-of-everest-in-an-age-greed](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/12475625-high-crimes-the-fate-of-everest-in-an-age-greed) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vanuatu* *Store origin: VU* *Last updated: 2026-05-09*