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The Climb

Tragic Ambitions on Everest

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The Climb

By: G. Weston DeWalt, Anatoli Boukreev
Narrated by: Nelson Runger, Richard M. Davidson
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About this listen

Listen to The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film Everest) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest.

In May 1996, three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women—including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall—were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way down the mountain as darkness approached. Alone and climbing blind, Anatoli Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death.

“Powerful … a breath of brisk, sometimes bitter clarity … Boukreev did the one thing that denies the void. He took action. He chose danger, and he saved lives.”—The New York Times Book Review

©1997 Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt (P)1998 Recorded Books, LLC Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Climbing & Mountaineering Outdoors & Nature Sports

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Brilliantly written and narrated. would definitely recommend to those enthused by Everest. A story of success, tragedy and heroism.

a remarkable story of endurance

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Very inspirational, Honest and factual. I was gripped. Anatoli Bukreev was an amazing climber, RIP.

Great true story

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Well read very interesting story after listening to this i will listen now too thin Air

Very enjoyable

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I don't blame Anatoli but it doesn't have the pull of into thin air. the reader was not good though.

it's okay. not as good as into thin air.

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Having read Into Thin Air and some of the criticisms around the disaster I am so glad I have had the opportunity to hear this perspective. In all honesty my heart breaks for Boukreev as his heroism has gone largely uncelebrated. This is a brilliant book, well written and well performed and can strongly recommend it to anyone interested in either the disaster or in mountaineering.

An incredible story told by an incredible climber

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