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News Release
| 2/19/08 - Epilogue is pleased to present pulitzer prize winning journalist Michael Kodas |
Epilogue is pleased to present pulitzer prize winning journalist Michael Kodas, author of "High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in the Age of Greed" on March 8th, and Colorado's own Majka Burhardt, AMGA certified guide and author of "Vertical Ethiopia" on March 12th. Each author will be doing a multimedia presentation and booksigning at the Steamboat Mountain Theater.
Further, we're proud to announce that these events will be fundraisers for Everything Outdoor Steamboat, a local educational organization whose stated mission is to utilize the classroom of outdoor adventure to instill motivation, self-confidence, and a passion for the outdoors in the youth of Steamboat Springs.
Epilogue Book Company strives to bring literary events that compliment the outdoor lifestyle, a lifestyle which defines us here in the Yampa Valley. Whether it's Steamboat's own Eugene Buchanan rafting class V in the Altai, Aspen skier Chris Davenport's quest to Ski the 14ers, or Wolf Creek local Wayne Sheldrake's authoritative biography of the ski lifestyle, theEpilogue Outdoor Author Series features writers who share our passion for adventure and exploration.
Tickets will be $10 per show, $15 for both, and group rates will be available. Please come see us at Epilogue Book Company, 837 Lincoln, to reserve your seat today! Or call us at 879-BOOK.
High Crimes March 8th, 7pm, SMT
In 2006, the late Sir Edmund Hillary spoke of the mountain whose summit he was the first to reach a half-century earlier. “I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mt. Everest has become rather horrifying,” he said. “People just want to get to the top.” His words could serve as the thesis of Michael Kodas’s absorbing and disturbing new book about the business of Everest, High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed
High Crimes chronicles the 2004 Everest season and attempts to uncover how a 69-year-old doctor named Nils Antezana died on the mountain after being abandoned near the summit by his guide and Sherpas. The Everest described by Kodas is an extreme theme park, a sort of globalized Wild West populated by unscrupulous characters whose guiding principles are amateurism (in the bad sense), thievery, egotism, and deadly greed.
Vertical Ethiopia March 12th, 7pm, SMT
In March of 2007, four women traveled to northern Ethiopia to climb virgin sandstone towers in the Horn of Africa. Vertical Ethiopia is the narrative of their journey.
Listed by Frommers as one of the “Top 12 Travel Destinations for 2007,” Ethiopia is trying to excavate itself from a legacy of famine, drought, and communism. Vertical Ethiopia reveals the country at a turning point in its embrace of its natural heritage. Using climbing as a magnifying glass, Majka Burhardt comes to understand a land brimming with striking geological and cultural beauty. Gabe Rogel captures this process, and contextualizes it, through his photographs. Burhardt’s narrative reveals the challenges of climbing and ofEthiopia, and her and her team’s exploration become your own, as the red sandstone opens onto the endless African horizon.
If you'd like more information on these authors, or would like to schedule an interview with either of them
please contact Joshua Karzen at 970-846-2502, or email at josh@epiloguebookco.com
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