The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
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This is the gripping true account of the worst disaster in the history of Mt. Everest. On May 10, 1996, two commercial expeditions headed by experienced leaders attempted to climb the highest mountain in the world, but things went terribly wrong. Crowded conditions on the mountain, miscommunications, unexplainable delays, poor leadership, bad decisions, and a blinding storm conspired to kill. Twenty-three men and women, disoriented and out of oxygen, struggled to find their way down the side of the mountain. In the dark, battered by snow and driven by hurricane-force winds, some of the climbers became hopelessly lost and resigned themselves to death. But head climbing guide Anatoli Boukreev refused to give up hope. Climbing blind in the maw of a life-threatening storm, Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. Booknews Weaving together first-hand accounts by the head tour guide of the Mountain Madness expedition and an investigative narrative based on interviews with other expedition members and mountain climbing specialists, the authors explore the conditions that led to the May, 1996 disaster on Everest. The authors counter many of the claims that were made in Jon Krakauer's , written on the same subject.
PrologueCh. 1Mountain Madness1Ch. 2The Everest Invitation13Ch. 3Doing the Deals25Ch. 4The Clients36Ch. 5The Trail to Everest42Ch. 6Doing the Details50Ch. 7Base Camp58Ch. 8Khumbu to Camp II64Ch. 9Camp II77Ch. 10The First Delays86Ch. 11Toward the Push98Ch. 12The Countdown109Ch. 13Into the Death Zone121Ch. 14To the South Summit133Ch. 15The Last Hundred143Ch. 16Decision and Descent151Ch. 17Snowblind160Ch. 18Walk or Crawl170Ch. 19The Rescue Transcript182Ch. 20The Last Attempt199Ch. 21Mountain Media Madness206Afterword225Epilogue: The Return to Everest230Postscript251In Memory255Everest Update: A Response to Jon Krakauer261A Review from the American Alpine Journal299Mountain Madness Everest Debriefing: A Transcript304
