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In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. As they neared the summit twenty-three men and women, including the expedition leaders, were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disorientated, out of oxygen and depleted of supplied, the climbers struggled to find their way to safety. Experienced high-altitude guide Anatoli Boukreev led an exhausted and terrified group of climbers back to safety before going back out into the blizzard to help others stranded on the mountain. Rescuing a number of people from certain death, he emerged a hero. The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev is an honest and gripping account of true endurance and contains interviews with most of the surviving climbers, medical personnel, Sherpa guides, and families of the dead who experienced the tragedy. This edition also includes the transcript of the Mountain Madness debriefing, recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston de Walt's response to Jon Krakauer.
When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time.
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.
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