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While not as readable, This book about the deadlly Mt. Everest climbs of May 1996, like Krakauer's Into Thin Air is a must read for those who enjoy non-fiction adventure tales of human endurance and extreme circumstances. Anatoli Boukreev, the author was a professional climber with Scott Fisher's Mountain Madness expedtion. Boukreev felt Krakauer's earlier published account inaccurately reported his own actions and motivations.
The two books should be read together even though the narrative vo ...more
The two books should be read together even though the narrative vo ...more
Only partially read, since I had just recently read Into Thin Air, which is written about the same event.
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