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A lot of time in the car today, so finished this audiobook. Anatoli Boukreev was a guide on the climb to the peak of Everest that went so disastrously wrong in May 1996. He talks about his part in the disaster and other climbs that undertook. Boukreev died on a climb in 1997, in Nepal. #NFN2020 #Book

Wow just wow

@Emilymdxn sorry for the late post, I‘ve been readathoning in the car and doing the housework, I‘ve been to the Appalachian Trail and the top of Everest! #widehorizonreadathon

Having read «Into Thin Air» by Jon Krakauer I felt it was necessary to understand Anatoli Boukreev‘s side of the story. I am so glad I did! Not only is it fascinating to read an account from the Mountain Madness perspective but the pieces of the story have now fallen into place in an entirely different way. I am sad it took me so many years to read this book. The Anatoli Boukreev perspective deserves to be heard.

While I don't sail or climb there's just something about today that makes me feel a stronger kinship to these particular titles on my shelves.
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While this wasn‘t nearly as compelling as Krakauer‘s Into Thin Air, I still enjoyed learning about the 1996 Everest tragedy from Anatoli Boukreev‘s perspective.

Read this after Krakauer‘s Into Thin Air. Captures the same event, but from a different perspective. Tend to agree with Boukreev.#nonfiction#mountains#disaster

Four days until the Mr and I head to the SOLD OUT Mountain Film Festival stop in my province! Sitting here until then reading all the mountain books and getting crazy excited.