Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.82 AVERAGE
3.82 AVERAGE
adventurous
reflective
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
This is a difficult book to rate because it's someone's own experience, and that experience was a terrible tragedy, whichever side you believe. Additionally, it's really hard it to compare it directly with Into Thin Air, because of course it's recounting the same event.
Into Thin Air is the better book, undoubtedly. Krakauer is a skilled writer, who tells a story well. But The Climb is steeped in mountaineering knowledge and an understanding of the people who are driven to climb that I just don't think Krakauer had. I found myself believing Boukreev's account of events over Jon's even as I warmed to him and his detached style less and less. Finding out that he died so soon after this book was published was a punch.
I wasn't on that mountain. I don't know what really happened. I suspect that, as usual, the truth lies somewhere between the two perspectives. But it was really interesting reading both sides, and confirms for me that I never ever want to climb that mountain.
Into Thin Air is the better book, undoubtedly. Krakauer is a skilled writer, who tells a story well. But The Climb is steeped in mountaineering knowledge and an understanding of the people who are driven to climb that I just don't think Krakauer had. I found myself believing Boukreev's account of events over Jon's even as I warmed to him and his detached style less and less. Finding out that he died so soon after this book was published was a punch.
I wasn't on that mountain. I don't know what really happened. I suspect that, as usual, the truth lies somewhere between the two perspectives. But it was really interesting reading both sides, and confirms for me that I never ever want to climb that mountain.
adventurous
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
medium-paced
I read Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air a couple of years ago, so it only felt fair to read this one - essentially a rebuttal from Anatoli Bourkreev, the guide by Krakauer of running back to camp ahead of the clients he was guiding, rather than helping them, among other things.
This book was definitely written to be a lot less sensational than Krakauer's - it's a lot less focused on the disaster itself and more focused on the build up to the disaster and Boukreev's rescue attempts. It's definitely different than Into Thin Air, and honestly I think I liked it better in a lot of ways. It's definitely not written in the same way as Krakauer's book, which makes it a bit more of a slower read, but it was really detailed and interesting
This book was definitely written to be a lot less sensational than Krakauer's - it's a lot less focused on the disaster itself and more focused on the build up to the disaster and Boukreev's rescue attempts. It's definitely different than Into Thin Air, and honestly I think I liked it better in a lot of ways. It's definitely not written in the same way as Krakauer's book, which makes it a bit more of a slower read, but it was really detailed and interesting
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced