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The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by Anatoli Boukreev
The included review towards the end of the book sums up a lot of my own opinions and in much better words. It's impossible not to compare this book with [b:Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster|1898|Into Thin Air A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster|Jon Krakauer|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1463384482s/1898.jpg|1816662]. The latter had a better narrative and better storytelling, and in general I couldn't put it down. The Climb felt more like a long presentation of facts and events, something I read one chapter at a time. Still interesting and a very good read, it just felt less like a novel, which isn't a bad thing. The latter half of the book deals largely with the controversy between Krakauer and Bokreev/DeWalt, which is where I started to have a harder time putting it down. In general, it really has me rethinking the way I consume non-fiction.
I'm not a writer, so I'm just leaving it at that.
I'm not a writer, so I'm just leaving it at that.