About this title: Boukreev was the mountain guide for the Mt. Everest tragedy made famous in Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." Here, he retells the events from his point of view and defends himself against damning allegations in Krakauer's book.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780312168148ISBN:0312168144
Description: Very Good in very good jacket. Tragic Ambitions on Everest. Hardcover. Very Good condition inside and out, spine is very slightly cocked. DJ, Very Good. All books wrapped and placed in cardboard to prevent damage in shipping. Insurance Incl. read more
Binding: Mass Market P
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780312965334ISBN:0312965338
Description: Good. 1998 Mass PB. St. Martin's-Publisher. 297 Pgs. No reader marks, clean pgs. Binding solid. Cover very good with only light touch shelf wear. Pages lightly tanning. BW photos. Story of the 1996 Everest Climb, headed-up by Anatoli Boukreev which almost ended in disaster. read more
"If you read and loved Into Thin Air, you must read The Climb! This book is Anatoli Boukreev's response to Krakauer's criticisms of him in his novel. After reading Into Thin Air, you're left thinking Boukreev is an eccentric daredevil who took unnecessary risks while on Everest. Boukreev's response, while not angry/whiny or otherwise unnecessarily defensive, paints a different story. A great book to read, especially if you've already read Into Thin Air!"
"Interesting to see the counter-story, but without a doubt, Krakauer's has far more factual backing and truthfully presented research. This book was self-serving to a point of failing factually (and that is DeWalt's fault, not Boukreev's)...
Since many people reviewing this book are using the space to argue Boukreevs skill and character, incorrectly assuming that this validates his account, I wanted to address some of those ideas.
Some reviewers are failing to realize a few very important things, the first being a phenomenal climber DOES NOT necessarily make a phenomenal guide- in fact, guiding and climbing are two very different things!!! Next, I see a lot of people giving credit (rightfully so) to Boukreev for his undeniably heroic efforts in the early morning of the May 11th. BUT, how could anyone forget!??- that the tragedy BEGAN on the 10th... As a climber- i'm calling heroics not at all too-little but definitely TOO LATE! Yes, Hall and Scott were derelict in many ways in their leadership roles, but Boukreev made decisions early-on that directly jeopardized the safety of his entire team- and for one of those decisions (in my opinion the worst)-within this novel, he had NO meaningful rebuttal.
Look, I'm an outdoor guide, nowhere remotely near the level of guiding skills required to lead this sort of undertaking, i admit- but even I, and every other part-time guide out there knows that, what you might do on a personal trip is not always what you would do as an acting guide!!!!
***bottom line: 'Guiding' without oxygen= stupid, negligent, and in this case, disastrous!!!***
true, this disaster was compounded by the many many poorly-made decisions and actions of many many people- but those decisions were mostly made with starving, half-delusional brains!!! Boukreev, however, doesn't get that asterisk next to his error: he made the decision to guide without oxygen looooong before he was at altitude- and that decision, without a doubt, killed people. period. I'm not going to get into the fact that lots of those people shouldn't have been up there in the first place, or who's fault that is- but whether or not he liked the role (he confessed in an interview he did not), he was a GUIDE, and despite his heroic efforts at the end, and the fact that i was really and truly emotionally moved by his attitude and actions post-disaster... while reading this, i simply could not forgive him for at least that one glaring and fatal mistake."
"For anyone who hasn't read Jon Krakauer's 'into thin air', this is a matched set in which both writers discuss the same tragedy. This book reads like a bad apology as Boukreev tries to rationalize the mistakes he made in guiding a group of people to their death on everest. I don't mean to say that Krakauer's version is completely unbiased, but he was certainly more disinterested than Boukreev. Not only does Krakauer not waste needless, boring time trying to explain bad decisions (as Boukreev does), but Krakauer is a writer, whereas Boukreev was a mountaineer, and as expected, Krakauer's book is a much better read."
"Having read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, I figured reading this book about the same 1996 Everest climbing tragedy would be repetitive. I was pleasantly surprised to gain a whole new perspective on the event. Anatoli Boukreev was a guide for the Mountain Madness team. Krakauer was a client on a different team. Boukreev's experience is that of a mountaineering expert and employee of a novice adventure businnessman. Hearing his interpretation of the events challenges Krakauer's portrayal of the tragic climb.
The writing of Into Thin Air is much better than The Climb, but the purely factual tone and retelling of The Climb provides information that Into Thin Air does not contain and challenges some of the assumptions that Krakauer made about the what actually happened."
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