Title: Compelling story that adds important perspectives.
Product review: The Climb is Anatoli Boukreev's very personal account of the story behind the Everest tragedy of May, 1996. I had formed opinions of him based on Jon Krakauer's writings and subsequent publicity. Those opinions have changed. I found The Climb to be compelling and told from a master climber's perspective. What is truth when mountains, hypoxia, greed, weather and human limitations meet head on with avalanche force? I can not relate to the passions that drive men and women to push themselves to Everest expeditions, nor understand what such risks and achievements/failures really mean. But, after reading The Climb, I know that Anatoli Boukreev died doing what he loved and in the one place on earth he felt truly at home.
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