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The Climb

Tragic Ambitions on Everest

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The Climb

Written by: G. Weston DeWalt, Anatoli Boukreev
Narrated by: Nelson Runger, Richard M. Davidson
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Anatoli Boukreev’s first-hand account of the worst human disaster in the history of Mt. Everest will hold listeners spellbound. A top-rated guide and high altitude climber, Boukreev dictated the raw and powerful details of this ill-fated trek from memories and notes recorded just five days after the catastrophe. In May of 1996, 33 people went up the mountain, but only 28 returned. As two commercial expeditions climbed the world’s highest peak, poor planning, miscommunication, and an unpredictable blizzard conspired to defeat them. Although the author made it back to the safety of his tent, he defied his own pain and exhaustion to go back up the mountain. His rescue attempt saved the lives of three climbers. The events of those two fateful days prompted researchers at MIT to develop new technology that could prevent the recurrence of such a disaster. Narrators Richard M. Davidson and Nelson Runger sensitively convey the full scope of a drama and a tragedy the world hopes never to see again.

©1997 Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt (P)1998 Recorded Books, LLC Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Climbing & Mountaineering Outdoors & Nature

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Commercial expedition to the Everest gone wrong

This book is told from the POV of Anatoli Boukreev, a veteran high altitude mountaineer who was a guide in one of the two fateful expeditions to Everest in May 1996. It paints a picture of what took place and is a rebuttal to another book Into Thin Air written by a writer who was also on one of the expeditions. Mr. Boukreev was really a GOAT mountaineer venturing 3 times in the middle of a chilling blizzard without oxygen support at the highest camp to save these clients.

The book also gives an insight into the downsides of commercial expeditions to the Everest- underpaid sherpas risking their lives, garbage accumulating on the mountain, entitled inexperienced climbers who are prioritised by expedition organisers in hopes of good publicity and money and the economics behind the expedition

Basis this book, Everest and all the other mountains are best left admired from a distance…

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