A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By Jon Krakauer
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A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
By Jon Krakauer
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Published by Villard/Random House, New York, 1997, 1st US Edition, D/w, Fine. On May 9th 1996, five expeditions totalling some 40 climbers, were camped on the South Col of Everest. Twenty four hours later, one climber had died and 23 other men and women were fighting for their lives in a ferocious storm – in all, eight climbers died that day, some guides, some clients, in the worst Everest tragedy to date. The author, journalist and mountaineer Jon Krakauer reached the summit on May 10th and, as he started his descent, twenty other climbers were still pushing for the top. Six hours later, in horrendous storm conditions, he collapsed in his tent. He learned the next morning that 6 climbers were still on the mountain, fighting for their lives – five died and the other had to have a frostbitten hand amputated. Two of the teams on the mountain were led by Rob Hall (of whom Krakauer was a client) and Scott Fischer, both amongst the most experienced high altitude mountaineers in the world. Neither Hall nor Fischer survived the storm. This book created some controversy as it criticised the actions of Anatoli Boukreev (guiding for Scott Fischer) on the mountain, later rebutted by Boukreev in his book, The Climb.
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