“Is it right to offer a guided climb to clients such as Sandy pittman? Can any of those who were pulled / hauled up or down the peak, really claim to have scaled Everest?”
“I had been in Nepal and India before the WTC disaster. Someone had given me the book to read. I read this book in 2001 with enthusiasm and finished it in a week. I had finished the book the night before 9/11. I would like to climb Mt. Everest after traveling around the world in 90 days. I had the same thin air effect in North India. Try trekking in the Himalayan Mts on a donkey trail with slate rock falling above you.”
“i thought this book was mega-interesting...how/why do people endure this kind of torture...speaking of which, i only got through part of this author's bk about the mormons and have put aside his other Into the Wild...think i'll watch the filminstead!cheers,”
“I read this book and shortly afterward read The Climb. I much preferred Krakauer's account, as Bourkreev's account seemed a little too defensive. I think he doth protest too much. Though I highly respect what Boukreev did to try to save others, Krakauer seemed to have less at stake when trying to be objective. If you really want a great account of this tragedy from an objective source, find NG's "Everest: Mountain Without Mercy" by Broughton Coburn which tells the account of the Imax team led by David Breashears and Ed Viesturs, who risked the success of their expedition to help injured and weakened people off the mountain. They have no ax to grind because they weren't so close to the action that they wouldn't be able to remain objective. It's a moving account.”
“Very good analysis of the disaster and what happened afterwards”
“Most of the events in the book was tragic, but maybe the most appalling of all was the fact that the survivors (especially the author) were being blamed for the deaths of the others after all that they've been through. It's an amazing account of humanity.”
“The excruciating detail with which the author narrates the everest climb from the start to the end and its after-effects brings one closest to everest that one can ever be lest he climbs it. Of course i don't think anyone would dare to climb it after he reads the book.A great book”
“The excruciating detail with which the author narrates the everest climb from the start to the end and its after-effects brings one closest to everest that one can ever be lest he climbs it. Of course i don't think anyone would dare to climb it after he reads the book.”
“Harrowing. You almost forget to breathe in the last third. The true-life story of a Mt. Everest climb gone bad written by the mountaineer/journalist who was a part of the group. While the tragedy of the last section is heart-breaking and sometimes surreal the beginning of the climb is not as fascinating. ”
“Who really climbed it?Considering that there is the argument is Everst being too commercialized? Did the people that use supplemental oxygen have claim to say that they climbed everest along side the elite that didn't use O2. Also.... Jon Krakauer wrote this book from his emotions... was the critism he received justified?”
