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Doctor on Everest

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List Price: $27.95
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Your Savings: $ 18.96 ( 68% )
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Manufacturer: The Lyons Press

Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.98930092
EAN: 9781558219298
ISBN: 1558219293
Label: The Lyons Press
Manufacturer: The Lyons Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 248
Publication Date: 2000-10
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Studio: The Lyons Press

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Harrowing tales of one doctor's efforts to preserve life at 26,000 feet, including a new, firsthand account of the events described in Into Thin Air. Centering on the 1996 climb, in which Dr. Kenneth Kamler played a crucial role aiding many survivors of that disastrous ascent, Doctor on Everest is the never-before-seen portrait of how medicine is performed and lives are saved - or lost - in perilous conditions.

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Summary: GREAT BOOK AND GREAT SERVICE
Comment: I had read a lot of books on mountain climbing, especially Everest, before this one. This book was so interesting because it was written by a physician. In it Dr. Kenneth Kemler details the medical aspects of high-altitude climbing. It had a lot of information that I had not read any place else. Great service, too!

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Summary: Doctor bragging about Everest
Comment: It takes a big ego to climb Mount Everest -- and Kenneth Kamler definitely qualifies. He's not ashamed to admit he's a topnotch New York microsurgeon with a beautiful wife and delightful children. He speaks many languages, has a huge practice, is adored by his nurses and hospital associates, magnanimously offers his services to the occasional pauper -- and yet still finds time to spend a few months every summer trying to climb Mount Everest. Well, he's never actually made it to the top -- or even to camp IV below the summit. And his role in the 1996 disaster was mostly to listen on the radio with everybody else, and administer first-aid afterwards. The flip side of being a compulsive egotist is also to confess to the myriad ills and weaknesses that make him human after all -- maybe in more detail than you really want. Having said all that, it's nevertheless fair to say that his story is well-written and gives a thrilling vision of life on the top of the world, where determined men and women see if they have enough grit and stamina to make it through the most grueling ordeal of climbing the world's highest peak. By the time you've finished reading the book, you might just decide that Dr. Kamler would be an interesting person to know after all. But if you really want to know what it looks like from the top of Everest, read the classic story of the 1996 disaster written by Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air.

--Auralgo

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Summary: Another Good Story
Comment: I say "another" because there have been many stories written about the people's adventures on and with Mt. Everest. Ken Kamler's story is a good one. I felt closer to his experiences with the challenges faced on Everest than other high-mountain climbers. The reason for this feeling was his description of facing realities and not making it to the top. I was tired of reading other author's stories and their successes. One could come away from reading several of these books thinking that Everest was something a lot of us could do. This is not reality. However, Kamler does persevere and does succeed and I applaud his focus and determination.

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Summary: A doctor's personal account
Comment: Dr. Kamler lets the reader get to know him as a person, doctor and family man first. This let us feel a little more connected to Kamler as he journeys to a land where climbers test their mental, emotional and physiological limits. He also conveys how he feels about other the climbers rather than just give us descriptions of their personalities. All this makes for a truly personal account.

Kamler provides details of the seemingly mundane aspects of life on the mountain. The importance of timing when to take a shower to take advantage of the daily short period of reliable sunshine. Finding a melted chocolate bar mess in his pack when he stops to rest on the Western Cwm. Meals of crackers, oysters and jelly. These descriptions give a fuller view of life in such a hositle enviroment.

And, of course, the medical perspective makes this book special. Kamler's accounts of the challenges of high alitude medicine (both as doctor and patient) offer the reader fuller understanding of world mountaineering.

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Summary: Pompous wannabe adventurer doctor
Comment: Kamler, makes me want to puke. this pompous, arrogant wannabe adventurer writes like he is gods gift to high adventure. Maybe being the onsite doctor is an excuse for not summiting. Perhaps a more noble pursuit would be to help innocent people that are injured without being self-destructive. In my opinion there is nothing more dangerous than a pompous arrogant doctor that fancies himself the guru of high adventure medical treatment. Go back to being a hand surgeon you [...].

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