Title: A Nit-Picking, Profit-engineering diatribe
Product review: This add-book by deWalt attempts to stir up more money by scraping the bottom of the barrel to bring up transcripts of altittude-addled interviews. Worse, the Salon sword-crossing with Jon Krakauer is so phony that deWalt appears mostly to be clutching at straws to defend a man whose biggest mistake wasnt that he did not fulfil his guiding duties - but rather the inability to admit a mistake. And the Salon excerpts do go on interminably.Boukreev is a flawed hero but a hero nonetheless.Krakauer's own compelling version of the events bear testimony to this. And as for the sniping by deWalt, has he donated even a dollar of his profits to various mountaineering causes or organisations?The very silence on this issue begs the question whether or not such a book should ever have come out.I suggest all armchair climber thinking of buying this spend their money on World Mountaineering by Audrey Salkeld instead
Would you say this review depicts the product in a flattering or unflattering light?
