The Climb

Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt

St. Martin's Griffin

Download Image Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt The Climb
Buy it now

Available Formats

Book
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.

Connect with the Author

Macmillan Newsletter

Sign up to receive information about new books, author events, and special offers.

Sign up now

Reviews

Praise for The Climb

"Powerful...a breath of brisk, sometimes bitter clarity...Boukreev did the one thing that denies the void. He took action. He chose danger, and he saved lives." --The New York Times Book Review

"Boukreev heroically rescued several climbers from certain death...[The Climb] gives an excellent account of the May 1996 disaster." --Chicago Tribune

"Compelling...[The Climb] has a ring of authenticity that challenges the slickly written Into Thin Air." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Provocative...compelling reading, both as an adventure and a spiritual reckoning." --The New Mexican

"Boukreev acted with extraordinary heroism...[In The Climb] first-person anecdotes, plus excerpts from taped base-camp interviews, are skillfully fleshed out by coauthor G. Weston DeWalt." --Rock & Ice Magazine

Reviews from Goodreads

Back

About the Author

Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt

Anatoli Boukreev was one of the world's foremost high-altitude mountaineers. Twenty-one times he went to the summit of the world's highest mountains. For his heroic actions on Mount Everest in May 1996, he was awarded the American Alpine Club's highest honor, the David A. Sowles Memorial Award. He died in an avalanche while climbing in Nepal on December 25,1997.

G. Weston Dewalt is a writer and a documentary filmmaker whose work has been aired on PBS. He divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and London.

Anatoli Boukreev
G. Weston DeWalt

Anatoli Boukreev

Official Sites

Related Links

Back

Buy the Book

Available Formats and Book Details

The Climb
Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt

Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Griffin
July 1999
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780312206376
ISBN10: 0312206372
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 400 pages, Includes sixteen pages of color photographs
$17.99
Buy

Mass Market Paperbound

Learn more about this edition
Mass Market Paperbound
St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Paperbacks
July 1998
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780312965334
ISBN10: 0312965338
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 297 pages
$7.99
Back

From The Publisher

St. Martin's Griffin

Latest on Facebook

Latest on Twitter

Back

{ About }

{ Services }

{ Store }

{ Publishers }

Education

Children's

© 2011 Macmillan