The Climb
Tragic Ambitions on Everest
St. Martin's Press · Print & ebook · July 16, 1999
Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015.
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- Who it’s for
- A memoir-driven Everest read, shaped by ambition, survival, and the blunt fact of altitude.
- Themes
- survival, mountaineering, tragedy
- Pacing
- Mixed
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Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest. 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.
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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.
Thin Air
A memoir-driven Everest read, shaped by ambition, survival, and the blunt fact of altitude.
Come here for
- autobiography-meets-survival
- Everest, with the air thin and the stakes obvious
Expect
- sustained narrative pull
- sports-travel intensity over tidy reflection
Where it sits
| Mountaineering | 78% |
|---|---|
| Adventurers & Explorers | 63% |
| Survival Stories | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Adventurers & Explorers
- Central Asian History
- Mountaineering
- Authors
- Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Published
- July 16, 1999
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- survival · mountaineering · tragedy
- Reading lane
- Adventurers & Explorers