- Mass Market Paperback: 308 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press; New edition edition (27 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312965338
- ISBN-13: 978-0312965334
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (62 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 459,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Raw but powerful...[Boukreev] took action. He chose danger, and he saved lives." --"The New York Times Book Review"
"One of the most amazing rescues in mountaineering history, performed single-handedly a few hours after climbing Everest without oxygen by a man some describe as the Tiger Woods of Himalayan climbing." --"Wall Street Journal"
"["The Climb"] has a ring of authenticity that challenges the slickly written "Into Thin Air..".Compelling" --"Minneapolis Star Tribune"
"One of the most amazing rescues in mountaineering history, performed single-handedly a few hours after climbing Everest without oxygen by a man some describe as the Tiger Woods of Himalayan climbing." --"Wall Street Journal"
"["The Climb"] has a ring of authenticity that challenges the slickly written "Into Thin Air..".Compelling" --"Minneapolis Star Tribune"
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"The Climb" is a true, gripping, and thought-provoking account of the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest. On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world, but things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions on the mountain, miscommunications, unexplainable delays, poor leadership, bad decisions, and a blinding storm conspired to kill. Twenty-three men and women, disoriented and out of oxygen, struggled to find their way down the southern side of the mountain. In the dark, battered by snow driven by hurricane-force winds, some of the climbers became hopelessly lost and resigned themselves to death. Anatoli Boukreev, the head climbing guide for the West Seattle-based Mountain Madness expedition, refused to give up hope. Solo, climbing blind in the maw of a storm that continually threatened his life, Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. Here for the first time, Anatoli Boukreev speaks in his own voice about what happened on that desperate day on Mount Everest. His dramatic first-person account is woven into the sensitive, probing inquiry conducted by investigative writer and filmmaker G. Weston DeWalt, whose extensive interviews with expedition members and survivors and with professional mountaineers provide a unique and critical perspective on the tragedy. "The Climb" is an odjective account of misadventure and a sobering cautionary tale of hubris in the face of unforgiving nature.
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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Heroic Man,
By Duke (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Paperback)
If you are looking for a fair view of what happened on the mountain on that dreadful day 10th May 1996 then this is the book to read, but if you are after a book that takes you on a rollercoaster ride of those fateful hours then i'm afraid you will be very disappointed.After reading this book I have an awful lot of admiration for Anatoli Bourkreev. The heroic effort he made to rescue as many eople off that mountain must never be forgotten. The Climb is split into effectively 2 books. The first explains how Antoli was chosen for the expedition, the preparation that was involved and also the detail of what actually happened when the two teams of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer got tangled deep into the death zone. The 2nd part of the book is spent justifying Anatoli's decisions, and defending the wild and mostly misdirected accusations directed at him by Jon Krakauer. This in it's self is very important, but unfortunately the same accusations are covered time and time again, but only from a different perspective. I found myself willing to get to the end of the book for this reason, which did slightly ruin the whole book for me. Please make your own mind up, but be warned that the last half of the book can become a little tedious.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
So good, i'm reading it again,
By Mark Wood (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Paperback)
When i bought this book i had no idea that it would keep my gripped for more than a 24 hours on a flight, reading without a pause but it did. Great book, well written (i am currently reading it for a second time). In addition it also provides a counter view to the contentious views that are expressed in 'into thin air'. A true story of human endurance, bravery, extreme conditions and business competition in a world where the price of failure is death. A truely human story about one of the great mountaineers of all time, who climbed without O2. Great read and everyone i know who has read it say the same, you just can't put it down until the story has been told in full.
17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A compelling read... Hard to put down...,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Paperback)
This is one of the best book I have ever read - in it G.W. DeWalt and Boukreev, one of the legendary climbers of his time, have combined to make this book a gripping, compelling read. It was immensely difficult to tear myself away from it. Having read Into Thin Air by John Krakauer, which gives Krakauer's version of events on that fatal day, this book contrasts heavily to Krakauer's style of writing, in as good a way as possible. G.W. DeWalt has put Boukreev's account forward so well, I am moved to feel for Boukreev - who pulled off one of the most astounding mountaineering rescues of all time without oxygen - because he is unjustly villified over his actions on that fatal day by the media. In reading this, I have been compelled to change my mind over certain things - showing how well his account has been put across.
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