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I've read a whole bunch of books on climbing Everest recently, the first being Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. I've read too many on the topic recently, so it was good to finish with The Climb which is Boukreev's rebuttal to comments made about him by Krakauer.
This was a good read and gave an alternative view of the events on Everest on the infamous May 10th 1996, and there is no doubt that Boukreev single handedly saved numerous lives that night. However the book rubs me up the wrong way because of two things:
It continues to push Boukreev's view and experience, almost to the exclusion all others. Given that it's his book this is to be expected to a degree, but it gave the impression that there was only one story on May 10th 1996 and that this was that story. Of ...
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In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women-including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall-were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way down the mountain as darkness approached. Alone and climbing blind, Anatoli Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. This new edition includes a transcript of the Mountain Madness expedition debriefing recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston DeWalt's response to Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer.
Additional information
- Pages: 416
- ISBN: 0312206372
- EAN: 9780312206376
- Dewey: 796.522095496
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin