OVER THE EDGE
A different sort of true climbing adventure--this one with terrorists, kidnappings, and AK47sNew afterword by the authorFirst time in paperbackBefore dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America's best…
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A different sort of true climbing adventure--this one with terrorists, kidnappings, and AK47sNew afterword by the authorFirst time in paperbackBefore dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America's best young rock climbers--Tommy Caldwell, Beth Rodden, Jason "Singer" Smith, and John Dickey--were asleep in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan. At daybreak, they would be kidnapped at gunpoint by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikistan and Afghanistan and is linked to Al Qaeda. The kidnappers, themselves barely out of their teens, intended to use their hostages as human shields and for ransom money as they moved across Kyrgyzstan. They hid the climbers by day and marched them by night through freezing, treacherous mountain terrain, with little food,