Title: Thoughts From London
Product review: Alex Garland (author of THE BEACH & THE TESSERACT) recently wrote that THE CLIMB was the best book he'd read in 1999, that it was a story that would "both grip and haunt you." I couldn't agree more. This challenge to the self-serving, univision of Jon Krakauer is a welcome and valuable contribution to mountaineering literature. After reading THE CLIMB I felt that I had a clearer sense of the actions and decisions that contributed to the 1996 Everest disaster, and I am left in wonder that the impact of Krakauer's presence on the decision making of Rob Hall has not been more closely examined. Read it for insight and a critical look at Krakauer's constructions of "reality."
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