Anatoli Boukreev

The Climb

Tragic Ambitions on Everest

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In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. Each group contained world-class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. As they neared the summit, twenty-three men and women, including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall, were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disorientated, out of oxygen and depleted of supplies, they struggled to find their way to safety. Experienced high-altitude guide Anatoli Boukreev led his exhausted and terrified group of six back to shelter before going back out alone into the blizzard to help others stranded… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: DeWalt, G. Weston

ISBN: 978-1-5098-6799-8
EAN: 9781509867998
Produktnummer: 25151607
Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
Masse: H19.7 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.7 cm 298 g
Gewicht: 298
Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.

Über den Autor

Anatoli Boukreev was a Russian Kazakhstani professional mountaineer. He was an experienced climber of eight-thousander peaks, and was the lead climbing guide in the Mountain Madness team during the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. He rescued three clients left stranded after the blizzard struck. He tells his account of these dramatic events in The Climb. He died when an avalanche hit Annapurna I on Christmas Day 1997.