The Climb

by Anatoli Boukreev; G. Weston DeWalt

• ISBN13: 9780312168148
• ISBN10: 0312168144
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2015-09-22
• Publisher: Macmillan Trade

Summary

On May 9, 1996, 30 climbers began their ascent of Mount Everest. Twenty-five came back alive--barely. Anatoli Boukreev is the one man who knows the whole story. Here he presents an exhilarating account of mountaineering and a sobering, cautionary tale of hubris in the face of unforgiving nature.

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE	ix
CHAPTER 1 Mountain Madness	1	(12)
CHAPTER 2 The Everest Invitation	13	(12)
CHAPTER 3 Doing the Deals	25	(11)
CHAPTER 4 The Clients	36	(6)
CHAPTER 5 The Trail to Everest	42	(8)
CHAPTER 6 Doing the Details	50	(8)
CHAPTER 7 Base Camp	58	(6)
CHAPTER 8 Khumbu to Camp II	64	(13)
CHAPTER 9 Camp II	77	(9)
CHAPTER 10 The First Delays	86	(12)
CHAPTER 11 Toward the Push	98	(11)
CHAPTER 12 The Countdown	109	(12)
CHAPTER 13 Into the Death Zone	121	(12)
CHAPTER 14 To the South Summit	133	(10)
CHAPTER 15 The Last Hundred	143	(8)
CHAPTER 16 Decision and Descent	151	(9)
CHAPTER 17 Snowblind	160	(10)
CHAPTER 18 Walk or Crawl	170	(12)
CHAPTER 19 The Rescue Transcript	182	(17)
CHAPTER 20 The Last Attempt	199	(7)
CHAPTER 21 Mountain Media Madness	206	(19)
AFTERWORD	225	(5)
EPILOGUE: THE RETURN TO EVEREST	230	(23)
POSTSCRIPT	253	(3)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	256