The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Nov 2015 · Pan Macmillan
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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.
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.
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August 16, 2024
So very sad, so many lives lost, lives forever changed and an innocent mans reputation destroyed before his untimely death. The people who climb know the risks they take, its an extereme challenge done by fully informed adults. The choice is theirs, its a selfish "sport" where you're reliant on your own capability not others, climbers know the risks & shouldn't make others responsible for decisions they make. No matter how much they pay- its not enough, its not an obligation for others to risk/exchange their life for yours. If you can't get down then dont go up. YOU decide, can stop at any time. I do criticise those who stand in judgement of the living. We would all want to be hero & save everyone, but at what cost? Two or more deaths instead of one? Dont blame the living for choosing to save themselves, blame the decisions individuals make. RIP all those lost on all mountains & condolences to all the loved ones they leave behind.
Novi Abdi
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July 13, 2019
just feel it
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About the author
Anatoli Boukreev was a Russian Kazakhstani professional mountaineer. He was an experienced climber of eight-thousander peaks, and was the lead climbing guide in the Mountain Madness team during the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. He rescued three clients left stranded after the blizzard struck. He tells his account of these dramatic events in The Climb. He died when an avalanche hit Annapurna I on Christmas Day 1997.
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