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Michael Kodas
Book Launch
Real Art Ways
presents a book reading and multimedia presentation by Michael Kodas on Friday,
February 8, from 7-9pm. Kodas will read from his new book High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Hyperion, February 2008). The audience is invited to participate in an informal conversation with Kodas following the presentation. This event is free to the public.
Since 1987, Kodas has worked at the Hartford Courant as a reporter and photographer, where he was a member of a Pulitzer Prize winning team. His work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and Newsweek. He is an avid climber and lives in Hartford, Connecticut.
High Crimes is Kodas's gripping account of life on top of the world, where man is every bit as deadly as Mother Nature. Kodas discovered this firsthand when he attempted to reach the summit himself, on assignment for the Hartford Courant. On Everest, Kodas, his wife, and climbing partners found themselves in camps filled with theft, fraud, and violence, where they were not only at the mercy of the mountain, but of their own teammates.
From High Crimes:
"In the winter of 2004, when two of the world's most experienced Everest climbers invited me to join them in Tibet, the world's highest mountain seemed to shine like a beacon through my neighborhood. That summer, when I returned home from the Himalayas suspicious enough of them to install a home security system, I realized the mountain on the other side of the world cast a shadow long enough to fall on my house."