marya_ 's review for:

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by G. Weston DeWalt, Anatoli Boukreev, Петр Сергеев

4.0

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My main complain is that the constant mix of the first and third person is a little confusing. That's one point for Krakauer's Into Thin Air, which was a delightful reading. However, after having read both, I have to say I'm a little sad about how Boukreev was depicted in Krakauer's narrative. It's not fair, I can see a lot of prejudice towards him and his actions. Anatoli was a hero, he went up and down the mountain when nobody else would. He was such a strong soul, keeping on after such an event

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—besides his mother death and a very traumatic bus accident—, until he himself succumbed to the power of another mountain.

His only fault was not knowing enough English to sound as convincing as Krakauer in the first moments after the disaster.