Title: very disappointing
Product review: This book is terribly written. I didn't buy the co-authors' self-serving claims that Mr. Boukreev was slandered by Jon Krakauer's much more balanced and more carefully researched book, "Into Thin Air." At first glance, the crude writing and plodding documentary tone of "The Climb" gives it a patina of credibility, but I soon came to realize it was only a patina, resulting from DeWalt's shameless, heavy-handed attempts to manipulate his readers' sympathies. Boukreev was apparently a great climber, but after finishing this book I was convinced he had an oversize ego and an overly thin skin. To understand how Boukreev-DeWalt shamelessly distorted the facts to make their case, you only have to read Krakauer's utterly convincing rebuttal to their spurious claims, which was published in the postscript to the 1999 paperback edition of "Into Thin Air."
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