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Summary: Loved it!
Review: Excellent, especially if you've read Into Thin Air and love mountaineering minutiae.
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Summary: Exciting and honest
Review: Before I read The Climb, I had read "Into Thin Air", another account of the same climb by a different climber of another team. It recalls the same tragic event on Mt. Everest. Though I enjoyed that book as well, I enjoyed "The Climb" much more. Less crude, I believe the author told his honest story. Though it is real life it has all the suspense and danger of an academy award winning movie. Read it and I guarantee it will not disappoint you.
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Summary: A copy of "Into Thin Air"
Review: This book was good but it was just a copy of Jon Krakauer's "Into thin Air". I thought "Into Thin Air" was better. This book had better pictures but thats about it. I would recommend this book only if the person had already read "Into Thin Air".
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Summary: Anothether view of disaster
Review: This work is excellenn as far as reading. It deals with the disaster that "Into thin air" has tried to deal with -- but I would recommend reading this book for its substance and its view as well as its closer focus of this particular expedition of Mountain Madness seen from their chief guide - who was probably or possibly the only one who had some control,saved some lives and survived this episode. Bless him - OM MANI PEDME HUM
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Summary: Anatoli is a hero
Review: Into Thin Air while a good book tends to point an accusatory finger in the direction of Anatoli for the deaths that night On Everest. Anatoli saved lives and what happened on the mountain that night is nobodys fault. This book is very good, goes into more detail than Into Thin Air. Both are very good for different reasons. I suggest reading both. You wont be disappointed.
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Summary: most interested mounteneering book
Review: give more people's experience when climbed this mountain would give more thing to learn
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Summary: Great Book
Review: A little reverse slamage on the ol' Krauker. Great if read along with Into Thin Air and Climbing High.
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Summary: Differentiating The Climb from Into Thin Air
Review: Let's get to the heart of the difference between Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and Boukreev's The Climb: Into Thin Air is a book offered by a skilled, professional writer looking to intertwine his talent for storytelling with his personal experience on Everest. While Krakauer entertains with impressive vocabulary (several times using words I could not find in a recently published dictionary), he also sacrifices the opportunity to give the reader the clearest account possible of the tragedy which he writes about.Boukreev and Dewalt, meanwhile, offer not a thriller such as Krakauer, but a far more compelling account of the how, and the why; essential if one hopes to gain the maximum insight into the development of the tragedy. Sure Boukreev defends his actions on the mountain...something we would all do. The challenge to the reader is to understand that this book is far more than a defense of Boukreev's personal actions. It is a thorough account of the entire expedition; after reading it, one get's an excellent idea of what went wrong; how and why it went wrong.
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Summary: Don't Blame Anyone
Review: Both the Krakauer book and Boukreev story are fantastic reads. Both describe a tragedy for which there is no one to blame. At 29,000 feet, in this oxygen-starved environ, the mountain rules and even the best, most conditioned climber who may have successfully climbed Everest previously is still at the mercy of the mountain and the weather. For $60,000 plus, Fischer and Hall provided a trip up the mountain. For even a million dollars, no guide can guarantee the saftey of the climber and anybody who thinks otherwise is a fool. It could be argued that there is an inherent conflict in these paid expeditions since the company wants to succeed in getting clients up the mountain to attract future clients. It seems to me that in each of the accounts of Krakauer and Boukreev both Fisher and Hall did not want to disappoint their clients and may have pushed it on that basis. But there wasn't anybody on that trip who did not understand the risks of Everest. Everbody acted nobly under the circumstances, even the Sherpas.
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Summary: Essential for anyone interested in the 1996 Everest story
Review: Boukreev has a remarkable story to tell. Unfortunately, hepicked Dewalt to help him do it. Obviously written as a rebuttal toJon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, The Climb is equal parts fascinating and frustrating. The story is fascinating when it gives us a view from Boukreev's position as a climbing guide on Scott Fischer's 1996 Everest expedition. The sense that the expedition was thrown together in a somewhat haphazard fashion and the description of utter chaos on the mountain during and after the storm are conveyed quite effectively. Dewalt fails, however, in his attempt to advocate on behalf of Boukreev. His repeated criticism of Krakauer and defense of every step taken by Boukreev quickly becomes redundant and diminishes Dewalt's ability to effectively tell the story. Indeed, Dewalt rushes past background information and detail to such an extent that the reader (particulary those not familiar with descriptions of Everest and the surrounding area) would be well advised to read the much better written Into Thin Air first in order to fully understand what's going on in The Climb. Ultimately, Dewalt does Boukreev a disservice by his insistent advocacy. He would have been better served if he had simply told Boukreev's remarkable story and let the readers decide issues of right and wrong. In the end, Krakauer's fairy well supported criticsm of Boukreev doesn't need this much rebuttal. What Boukreev is able to show is that Krakauer's concerns, while possibly justified, may have made little difference on summit day. Once certain questionable decisions had been made, Boukreev proved himself to be a hero, with more courage and physical ability than anyone else on the mountain, by far. Fischer, Hall and the others died for a number of reasons, most directly because Fischer didn't have the experience or organizational ability to mount a guided Everest expedition and because the very experienced Hall ignored his own critcally important rules on summit day. Boukreev should be remembered as the courageous hero and incredible athlete he was (the "Michael Jordan" of mountain climbing) and Krakauer, whose writing and analysis far outshines Dewalt's, shouldn't waste his time responding to Dewalt's crticisms.
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