By Sam Eifling
ESPNOutdoors.com

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

As if summiting Mount Everest didn't already sound like a positively dreadful way to spend a couple of months (and $60,000), journalist Michael Kodas' new book, "High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed" (Hyperion, $24.95), scrubs the final patina of charm off the trek. Hypoxia, hypothermia, frostbite, overflowing camp latrines, snow blindness, migraines and the constant threat of death by freezing, falling or being pulverized by ice is enough to keep sane people at home. Now add to t ...

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