Full name: The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Authors: Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780312206376 0312206372

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. Similar books: High Exposure by David Breashears The Other Side of Everest by Matt Dickinson Dark Summit by Nick Heil Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay The Lost Explorer by Conrad Anker Left for Dead by Beck Weathers No Shortcuts to the Top by Ed Viesturs High Adventure by Edmund Hillary A Life on the Edge by Jim Whittaker The Boys of Everest by Clint Willis Ghosts of Everest by Jochen Hemmleb Touch the Top of the World by Erik Weihenmayer Last Climb by David Breashears Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow by Maria Coffey