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A very interesting read on the tragic events on Everest in May of 1996 by one of the guides who was there and survived. I would strongly recommend reading this book if you have already read Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Reading these two together does a number of things: 1) gives a balance to the stories coming off of the mountain 2) demonstrates how 2 people in the same place witnessing the same event can have such different takes on it, and 3)really demonstrates how much altitude can affect you. Happily, Boukreev had assistance writing his story and the result is a very readable book. Sadly, there will be no more books by this extraordinary mountaineer as he perished in an avalanche on Annapurna in Dec. 1996.

Waaaaay better than the movie. Standard Clancy: exciting escapist reading.