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The Climb
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) 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. 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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veritysalter
veritysalter
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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A lot of time in the car today, so finished this audiobook. Anatoli Boukreev was a guide on the climb to the peak of Everest that went so disastrously wrong in May 1996. He talks about his part in the disaster and other climbs that undertook. Boukreev died on a climb in 1997, in Nepal. #NFN2020 #Book

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Blueberry Have you read Into Thin Air? How do they compare? 4y
veritysalter @Blueberry I have, stylistically ‘Into Thin Air‘ is a better written book. I think they both were keen to get their ‘side‘ of the story across. Boukreev feels the fault was with the weather, whereas John Krakauer blamed the guides. It‘s such a fascinating story. 4y
Blueberry Such a tragic event. 4y
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Sammidnightsun
Sammidnightsun
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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Wow just wow

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veritysalter
veritysalter
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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@Emilymdxn sorry for the late post, I‘ve been readathoning in the car and doing the housework, I‘ve been to the Appalachian Trail and the top of Everest! #widehorizonreadathon

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AlexanderS
AlexanderS
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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Having read «Into Thin Air» by Jon Krakauer I felt it was necessary to understand Anatoli Boukreev‘s side of the story. I am so glad I did! Not only is it fascinating to read an account from the Mountain Madness perspective but the pieces of the story have now fallen into place in an entirely different way. I am sad it took me so many years to read this book. The Anatoli Boukreev perspective deserves to be heard.

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ralexist
ralexist
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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While I don't sail or climb there's just something about today that makes me feel a stronger kinship to these particular titles on my shelves.
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#over50below #polarvortex2019 #bunchofmalarkey #minnesotalife

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Thousand-Lives
Thousand-Lives
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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While this wasn‘t nearly as compelling as Krakauer‘s Into Thin Air, I still enjoyed learning about the 1996 Everest tragedy from Anatoli Boukreev‘s perspective.

No_One I've read INTO THIN AIR 5-6 times. I should read this one too! I think it was written in part to dispute some of what Krakauer wrote 🤔 6y
Thousand-Lives @No_One Yes it was, and it‘s very clear in this book that that‘s his purpose. I found the differing perspectives interesting but am not compelled to take sides since I‘m no expert on mountain climbing 😊 Definitely give it a try! 6y
No_One @Thousand-Lives thanks for clearing that up. I'm definitely going to read it. I'm only an armchair mountaineer. 😉 6y
SnowEcho Read into thin air before - we have this book at home I suppose I should read it! 6y
Thousand-Lives @SnowEcho Hope you enjoy it! 6y
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atenelli
atenelli
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt

Read this after Krakauer‘s Into Thin Air. Captures the same event, but from a different perspective. Tend to agree with Boukreev.#nonfiction#mountains#disaster

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MeaMck
MeaMck
The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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Four days until the Mr and I head to the SOLD OUT Mountain Film Festival stop in my province! Sitting here until then reading all the mountain books and getting crazy excited.