The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
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Book Reviews of The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Book Review: Don't Blame Anyone
Summary: 5 Stars
Both the Krakauer book and Boukreev story are fantastic reads. Both describe a tragedy for which there is no one to blame. At 29,000 feet, in this oxygen-starved environ, the mountain rules and even the best, most conditioned climber who may have successfully climbed Everest previously is still at the mercy of the mountain and the weather. For $60,000 plus, Fischer and Hall provided a trip up the mountain. For even a million dollars, no guide can guarantee the saftey of the climber and anybody who thinks otherwise is a fool. It could be argued that there is an inherent conflict in these paid expeditions since the company wants to succeed in getting clients up the mountain to attract future clients. It seems to me that in each of the accounts of Krakauer and Boukreev both Fisher and Hall did not want to disappoint their clients and may have pushed it on that basis. But there wasn't anybody on that trip who did not understand the risks of Everest. Everbody acted nobly under the circumstances, even the Sherpas.Book Review: The Climb is the best book about the 1996 tragedy on Everest
Summary: 5 Stars
The Climb was my favorite book i read this year besides the Harry Potter books. The Climb is a retelling of the tradgedies on Mt. Everest in 1996. Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt join up to write The Climb. It explains about The Mountain Madness team of 1996 led by Anatoli Boukreev, trying to summit, and interfacing with difficulties, illness, and even death. The Climb describes the day of May 10, which is the day that a bad storm hit and something happened but I cant say what because you have to read it, like no other i have read before. The Climb also tells you about the good things too! Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt have made a very wise decision to team up on this book, The Climb. I would recomend this book to anyone that likes to mountain climb, is interested with the history and facts about Everest, or who would just like a very good read that touches you with more than just a sad paragraph. Thank you for your time and I hope that I have been helpful!Book Review: All of Boukreev's clients lived...
Summary: 5 Stars
Like many others, I felt that Anatoli Boukreev was an arrogant man after I read Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air." But the truth is that he was the only one who saved lives during the storm that night on Everest.
The prose is choppy but honest, and explains why Anatoli didn't use oxygen in 1996, why he descended early and how his strategy in guiding the Indonesian team in 1997 was affected by his own health.
Also, it was refreshing to read about the Everest experience through the eyes of a superlative climber in the top form of his life.
A year after the tragedy, Anatoli returned to the upper reaches of Everest and buried Scott Fischer and Yasuko Namba. That doesn't seem arrogant or uncaring to me.
For further reading on Boukreev, I recommend his "Above the Clouds," and Maria Coffey's "Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow."
Book Review: OUTSTANDING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS
Summary: 5 Stars
This book is a much better account of the events that transpired on that tragic day on Everest. The facts are much more clearly presented as they were communicated by an actual eyewitness participant in the events. The book "Into Thin Air" by Krakauer seems a confusing, twisted reconstruction of the events. This is not surprising due to the fact that Krakauer was sleeping in his tent and refused to participate in the rescue.
I read "Into Thin Air" first and was left with the feeling that something was missing, something fabricated, incomplete. Reading Anatolis account in "The Climb" filled in the blanks and revealed Krakauer for the lowly person and journalist that he is.
The Climb is the real deal as was Anatoli Boukreev the mountaineer and climber. Into thin Air was nothing but egotistical fantasy as was the author Jon Krakauer.
Book Review: Honesty Should Matter
Summary: 5 Stars
If you take the time to study all that has been written about Everest 96, it is difficult to accept Krakauer's concept of Anatoli as villian. I'd guess that the language barrier is a greater villian. Another villian is the effect of compounded bad decisions. I would not be surprised if the draft version of Into Thin Air had Rob Hall and Scott Fischer as primary villians, only to be replaced by Toli after the editor told Jon that it's poor form to pick on the dead. I used to read every Krakauer book or magazine article but now that I know he's willing to tell "little lies", I won't bother. I'd rather sift through Dewalt's drivel in order to get the facts written by Toli that have to guess how much I can trust Jon.Rest in peace, Anatoli. I know you did your best in a bad situation.