Full name: The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing's Greatest Generation

Author: Clint Willis Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Adventure, History, Travel Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780786715794 9780786720248 0786715790 0786720247

The Boys of Everest tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington. His inner circle -- which came to be know as Bonington's Boys -- included a dozen who became climbing's greatest generation. Bonington's Boys gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly terrible risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks. And they paid an enormous price for their achievements. Most of Bonington's Boys died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it? The Boys of Everest, based on interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, provides the closest thing to an answer that we'll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there. Similar books: Dark Summit by Nick Heil The Lost Explorer by Conrad Anker The Mystery of Mallory & Irvine by Tom Holzel The Other Side of Everest by Matt Dickinson Everest by Broughton Coburn The Ascent of Everest by John Hunt Alone at the Summit by Stephen Venables Fragile Edge by Maria Coffey Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev Last Climb by David Breashears High Adventure by Edmund Hillary Ghosts of Everest by Jochen Hemmleb Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall Buried in the Sky by Peter Zuckerman The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane Island of the Lost by Joan Druett Shackleton's Forgotten Men by Lennard Bickel