A review by katgriff
The Other Side of Everest: Climbing the North Face Through the Killer Storm by Matt Dickinson, Philip Turner

4.0

Solid addition to the (many) 1996 Everest as it focuses on the events on the Northern route. Dickinson handles the drama that came from the North side well (the Japanese climbers who did not stop to help Indian climbers who had attempted to summit on the day of the storm). As a film maker with limited climbing experience, he represents those who were shocked the Japanese did not attempt a rescue before his own summit attempt. But after his own experience in the death zone (and seeing where the bodies of the Indian climbers were), he comes to understand the decisions made by the Japanese.

I was also into this as a memoir about trying to make a documentary on Everest. So, the added challenges that filming adds to a summit attempt and the possible technical failures.