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The Climb

Tragic Ambitions on Everest

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The Climb

By: G. Weston DeWalt, Anatoli Boukreev
Narrated by: Nelson Runger, Richard M. Davidson
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Listen to The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film Everest) 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. 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.

“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

©1997 Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt (P)1998 Recorded Books, LLC Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Climbing & Mountaineering Outdoors & Nature Sports
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Brilliantly written and narrated. would definitely recommend to those enthused by Everest. A story of success, tragedy and heroism.

a remarkable story of endurance

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Very inspirational, Honest and factual. I was gripped. Anatoli Bukreev was an amazing climber, RIP.

Great true story

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I am an addictive armchair Everest climber! this was a good fix! I am glad he defended himself after being criticised by the novice climber Krakow.

compelling!

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Far more trueful and realistic than the films that have been made of the tragedy on Everest. Highly recommended

Well narrated, gripping account of the tragedy

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definitely worth a read if you have read into thin air. good narrator. the book was well wrapped up and I liked the afterword.

great read from anatoli's pov

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