Darwin's Race Author:Brian Ullmann, Brian Ullmann In this gripping novel, the world is watching as 12 hardened racers gather to compete in an event promoted as the most ambitious adventure race ever attempted. The contestants will advance into the deepest unexplored gorge on earth, and the first climber to ascend to the top of 22,000-foot Kuk Sur, one of the last remaining unclimbed Himalayan p... more »eaks, will claim a two million dollar prize. Among the climbers are Conner Michaels, haunted by his brother's mysterious death on Kuk Sur six years earlier; Preston Child, the millionaire financier of the race; and Child?s beautiful daughter, Malika. Hotshot television producer Terrance Carlton is overseeing the filming of the event, and each racer is outfitted with a shoulder-mounted camera for live broadcasts around the world. But as the racers plunge deeper into the legendary gorge, death follows. As the carnage mounts in the treacherously remote mountains, the racers?and the millions watching the tragedy unfold on television?realize that the mist-shrouded gorge is not as uninhabited as everyone had believed.« less
AWesome book, loved it! Plenty of action from the start easily readable and I don't even mountain climb but still could understand the jargon used. Great ending, couldn't put it down