Michael Kodas

The California Literary Review gave High Crimes their highest rating in the May 15th issue. Reviewer John Holt wrote:

 By the time I was halfway through High Crimes I was disgusted with everyone involved with Everest, even the so-called good guys, who hadn’t done nearly enough to clean up the situation. By the end of the book I was angry. What’s going on at this mountain and many others represents everything that is wrong, that is despicable in not only mountaineering and adventure travel but human behavior overall. 

 Read the review in its entirety here. 

High Crimes made the Washington Post’s recent roundup of sports books. Reviewer Allen Barra wrote:

“In 2004, on assignment for the Hartford Courant, Kodas joined an expedition to scale Everest led by two veteran climbers. Whatever the paper paid him, it wasn’t enough. As if the constant threat of death weren’t sufficiently terrifying, he discovered more deceit, thievery and double-crossing among his climbers than you find in a Martin Scorsese gangster film. High Crimes is both an adventure story and an exposé of a sport riddled with danger and corruption…”  

Check out the entire Washington Post roundup of sports books, which suggests many other terrific reads.