hambuttercup 's review for:

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by Anatoli Boukreev

3.0

adventurous sad tense slow-paced

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The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev is an another book written about the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, but in the perspective of Anatoli. When comparing “Into Thin Air” by Krakauer, this book felt a bit slower, but had more of a focus on details and the challenges of the climb.

Boukreev’s focus on the events leading up to and during the disaster, but the ending goes into Krakauer’s criticism of Boukreev’s actions during the disaster, particularly the claim that Boukreev descending fast from the summit without assisting other climbers. Throughout the book, Boukreev defends his decisions, arguing that he acted in the best interest of the team. Whether I agree or not, Boukreev’s book felt like he only wrote it to talk about that only and now share his story.

I appreciate him sharing his story but this didn’t hit as hard as I thought it would