A member of a climbing team that tried to take the summit of Everest in May 1996 shares the gripping true story of what happened when another climbing group was overcome by snow, wind, and lack of oxygen. 25,000 first printing. Tour.

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Sports & Outdoors

Boukreev, Anatoli

Dewalt, G.Weston

Mountaineering

St Martins Pr

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. 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.

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

St. Martin's: Griffin

Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer

When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time. In Above the Clouds, both the man and his incredible climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest-including his diary entries on the infamous 1996 disaster, written shortly after his return-are immortalized. There also are minute technical details about the skill of mountain climbing, as well as personal reflections on what life means to someone who risks it every day. Fully illustrated with gorgeous color photos, Above the Clouds is a unique and breathtaking look at the world from its most remote peaks.

St.Martin's Press

When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time.
In Above the Clouds, both the man and his incredible climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest-including his diary entries on the infamous 1996 disaster, written shortly after his return-are immortalized. There also are minute technical details about the skill of mountain climbing, as well as personal reflections on what life means to someone who risks it every day. Fully illustrated with gorgeous color photos, Above the Clouds is a unique and breathtaking look at the world from its most remote peaks.

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions in Everest

As the climbers of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster vanished into thin air, one man had the courage to bring them down alive... On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by expert leaders attempted to scale the world's largest peak. But things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions, bad judgement, and a bitter storm stopped many climbers in their tracks. Others were left for dead, or stranded on the frigid mountain. Anatoli Boukreev, head climbing guide for the Mountain Madness expedition, stepped into the heart of the storm and brought three of his clients down alive. Here is his amazing story-of an expedition fated for disaster, of the blind ambition that drives people to attempt such dangerous ventures, and of a modern-day hero, who risked his own life to save others..

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

St. Martin's Paperbacks

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Climb Tragic Ambitions (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Turtleback Books

Blackstone Audiobooks

The Climb

Pan Books

When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on December 25, 1997, the climbing world lost one of the greatest mountaineers of our time. His account of the 1996 Everest disaster, The Climb, was a New York Times bestseller, and in many eyes the most accurate portrayal of the infamous expedition. 
Above the Clouds contains riveting narratives of climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest-including Boukreev's diary of the 1996 expedition, written shortly after his return. There are also fascinating technical details about the skill of mountain climbing, as well as personal and moving reflections on what life means to someone who risks it every day. What emerges is a self-portrait by a man few people really know - an athletic prodigy who found joy and spiritual reward in the thin air where the body struggles to survive. 
Mingling hair-raising adventure with moving reflection, Above the Clouds is a unique and breathtaking look at the world from its most remote peaks. 
Author Biography: Anatoli Boukreev was (with G. Weston DeWalt) co-author of The Climb and a world-renowned high-altitude mountaineer. Twenty-one times he reached 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. 
Linda Wylie was Anatoli Boukreev's companion and is now executor of his estate.

Über den Wolken. Aus den Tagebüchern eines Extrem- Bergsteigers.

Heyne

Everest 1996: la verdad sobre la mayor tragedia en la historia del Everest

Weston, Dewalt G.

Ediciones Desnivel, S. L

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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer

Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Climb Tragic Ambitions (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

The Climb

Über den Wolken. Aus den Tagebüchern eines Extrem- Bergsteigers.

Everest 1996: la verdad sobre la mayor tragedia en la historia del Everest