The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt
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The Climb
Tragic Ambitions on Everest

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 9 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/13/2010


Synopsis

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. Twentythree 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 hurricaneforce 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 lifethreatening storm, Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death.

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