The Climb (book)
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| The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest | |
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| Author(s) | Anatoli Boukreev |
| Language | English |
The Climb is an account by Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev of the 1996 Everest Disaster, during which eight climbers lost their lives on Mount Everest. The co-author, G. Weston DeWalt (who was not part of the expedition), provides accounts from other climbers and ties together the narrative of Boukreev's logbook.
The book is also at least partly a response to Jon Krakauer's account of the same campaign in his book Into Thin Air, which laid some of the blame for the disaster on Boukreev's actions during the climb, which Boukreev refused to accept, likely leading to his own retelling of events with DeWalt.
Krakauer and DeWalt are engaged in a debate over the accuracy of what each man reported happened on the mountain in 1996. See Postscript of Into Thin Air for more information.
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