The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest by G. Weston DeWalt, Anatoli Boukreev

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest

G. Weston DeWalt, Anatoli Boukreev

400 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous informative slow-paced

Description

In May 1996 a number of 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 s...

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Moods

adventurous 93%
informative 59%
reflective 50%
sad 37%
emotional 34%
challenging 28%
inspiring 28%
tense 28%
dark 15%

Pace

medium 72%
slow 24%
fast 3%

Average rating

3.76

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