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 Great Read Jun 22, 2010
I had no previous knowledge about the events detailed in this book, but I greatly enjoyed the read. It was a page-turner. It seemed like a well balanced account of events.
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OUTSTANDING EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE EVENTS Jun 11, 2010
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.
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The Question: Why? Oct 01, 2009
I have never climbed a mountain, and I never will, but when I have hard times I like to read about people who have a tougher time of it than I do. The Climb fits the bill. What suffering!
The question: Why? Why would anyone pay a $65K fee to join an expedition like the ones that tackled Everest in 1996? The $65K is just to join. Personal expenses like air fare, the cost of equipment, and the time commitment come on top of the fee. For all this you become part of a group of people you do not know and may not like to risk life and limb to climb and climb and climb into ever harsher and more difficult conditions and ultimately to put your life at direct risk. For what?
This is a fine book; Into Thin Air is a fine book. What is amazing and very entertaining about both of these books is to behold and consider the folly of this adventure in all its glory.
I reserve five-star reviews for the best of the best. Do not take the four-star rating as a criticism. This is a very well written story.
It's always good to hear another side of the story Aug 15, 2009
I'm glad to have finally read this, I knew it wouldn't be as exciting, having already read Into Thin Air, but I'm certainly glad I picked it up. The Good: that we get an account of what happened from Boukreev, an explanation of his rationale and additional accounts of Fischer's expediton. We can only imagine/speculate how worse if would have gone had Boukreev not been there. The Bad: the writing. It felt disorganized, poorly constructed, disjointed ... Boukreev could have used a better co-author.
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Behind the scene of a commercial expedition May 06, 2009
This is another story about the infamous climb of Everest that Jon Krackauer made so famous with his book "Into Thin Air". Anatoli Boukreev was one of the strongest climbers of all time, and he wrote this book because he was not happy about what Jon wrote about him. Although he is obviously not as good of a writer as Jon, I enjoyed his book more. His version goes behind the main scene and shows the business end and the intense logistics of a commercial expedition on a big mountain. Anatoli was the one who was up half of the night rescuing climbers while the rest of the survivors were passed out in their tents. It seems like almost everyone who was on this expedition wrote a book, but this is my favorite version. Dancing on the Edge of an Endangered Planet
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