The Climb (book)

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The Climb is an account by Russian mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev of the 1996 Everest Disaster, during which eight climbers lost their lives on Mount Everest. The co-author, G. Weston DeWalt (who was not part of the expedition), provides more accounts from other climbers and ties together the narrative of Boukreev's logbook. The book is also at least partly a response to the account of the same campaign, Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, which questioned Boukreev's motives and actions during the climb.