The Climb

The Climb

Boukreev's account of the 1996 Everest disaster — the counterpoint to Krakauer's Into Thin Air. A different perspective on the same catastrophe, told by the strongest climber on the mountain that day.
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Publisher St. Martins Press
Published 1997
Related Wild Words
chinook shin-OOK foehn  FURN (German); FAYN (anglicized) scree SKREE fjord fee-YORD katabatic  kat-ah-BAT-ik trimline