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Michael Kodas

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1) High crimes: the fate of Everest in an age of greed

Author

Kodas, Michael

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

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High Crimes is journalist Michael Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world-where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. In the years following the publication of Into Thin Air, much has changed on Mount Everest. Among all the books documenting the glorious adventures in mountains around the world, none details how the recent infusion of wealthy climbers is drawing crime to the highest place on the planet. The change is caused both...

2) Megafire: the race to extinguish a deadly epidemic of flame

Author

Kodas, Michael

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

2017.

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As forest fires continue to ravage communities, this bestselling author and firefighter explores what causes them, and captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote wildernesses, as well as to the backyards of people faced with these environmental disasters, to look at the heart of this phenomenon and witness firsthand the heroic efforts...