★Big Berg Business
★The perverse tourism on the highest mountain in the world
★For readers of Jon Krakauer and Reinhold Messner
★Press focus

Mount Everest has become a place for perverted luxury mass tourism. With fatal consequences for the Tibetans living there, the mountaineers and nature. In his book, Oliver Schulz describes in a knowledgeable and exciting way the forces and interests that have driven this development. What does that do with the culture of the people who live there and those who climb the holy mountain or are dragged to an altitude of 8,848 meters out of misunderstood ambition? Schulz tells of the dream and nightmare on the highest mountain on earth, of the business with the mountain madness, which exemplifies the madness of the entire international alpinism. And he is looking for answers to the question of how mass tourism, death and exploitation on the mountain can be better brought under control in the future.

Oliver Schulz,
Born in 1968, is an Indologist, Tibetologist and sociologist and works as an editor for Lübecker Nachrichten and as a freelance journalist. He is the author of the non-fiction books "India on foot" (DVA) and "The Tibet Lie" (vitolibro) and has written numerous articles on the political situation on the subcontinent, among others. in Die Zeit, Zeit online, Spiegel, Welt and Media. He lives in Lübeck.