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The Climb

Tragic Ambitions on Everest

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Listen to The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film Everest) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.

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.

“Powerful … a breath of brisk, sometimes bitter clarity … Boukreev did the one thing that denies the void. He took action. He chose danger, and he saved lives.”—The New York Times Book Review

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

Commercial expedition to the Everest gone wrong

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