The Climb Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by Boukreev, Anatoli; DeWalt, G. WestonFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-07-16
Publisher(s): St. Martin's Griffin
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
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.
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.
Table of Contents
| Prologue | |
| Mountain Madness | p. 1 |
| The Everest Invitation | p. 13 |
| Doing the Deals | p. 25 |
| The Clients | p. 36 |
| The Trail to Everest | p. 42 |
| Doing the Details | p. 50 |
| Base Camp | p. 58 |
| Khumbu to Camp II | p. 64 |
| Camp II | p. 77 |
| The First Delays | p. 86 |
| Toward the Push | p. 98 |
| The Countdown | p. 109 |
| Into the Death Zone | p. 121 |
| To the South Summit | p. 133 |
| The Last Hundred | p. 143 |
| Decision and Descent | p. 151 |
| Snowblind | p. 160 |
| Walk or Crawl | p. 170 |
| The Rescue Transcript | p. 182 |
| The Last Attempt | p. 199 |
| Mountain Media Madness | p. 206 |
| Afterword | p. 225 |
| Epilogue: The Return to Everest | p. 230 |
| Postscript | p. 251 |
| In Memory | p. 255 |
| Everest Update: A Response to Jon Krakauer | p. 261 |
| A Review from the American Alpine Journal | p. 299 |
| Mountain Madness Everest Debriefing: A Transcript | p. 304 |
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