Title: Short of the Summit
Product review: The Climb gave me a new look on the '96 Tragedy other than from Krakauer and Lenne's books, so it was worth a read. However, the book should not be within the ranks of "novel" status. It should be among the "counter-arguement" ranks. It concentrates entirely too much on "damage control" for Anatoli and not on the climb. The book doesn't even hint that Anatoli may have been in the wrong on several occassions (because I believe there were several). There were also many instances where the author drives home the arguements that Krakauer makes in "Into Thin Air". Even the greatest have their moments of bad decisions... this book is one of them for the author.
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