The climb tragic ambitions on everest
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A mountaineer's account of the fatal 1996 Everest climb which killed eight people.
In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. As they neared the summit twenty-three men and women, including the expedition leaders, were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disorientated, out of oxygen and depleted of supplied, the climbers struggled to find their way to safety.
Experienced high-altitude guide Anatoli Boukreev led an exhausted and terrified group of climbers back to safety before going back out into the blizzard to help others stranded on the mountain. Rescuing a number of people from certain death, he emerged a hero.
The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev is an honest and gripping account of true endurance and contains interviews with most of the surviving climbers, medical personnel, Sherpa guides, and families of the dead who experienced the tragedy.
This edition also includes the transcript of the Mountain Madness debriefing, recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston de Walt's response to Jon Krakauer.
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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 14 juni 2018
Aantal pagina's: 400
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Anatoli Boukreev
Tweede Auteur: G Weston Dewalt
Co Auteur: G Weston Dewalt
Hoofduitgeverij: Pan Books
Product breedte: 130 mm
Product hoogte: 25 mm
Product lengte: 197 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm
Verpakking lengte: 194 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 608 g
EAN: 9781509867998