The Climb (book)

The Summit ( Original title: The Climb - Tragic Ambitions on Everest ) is a factual report on the disaster on Mount Everest in 1996, the Russian climber Anatoli Nikolayevich Bukrejew (also called Anatoli Boukreev ) in collaboration with the American journalist G. Weston DeWalt published. The book can be seen as a counter- representation of the book in icy heights of the American journalist Jon Krakauer, in the Bukrejews role as a mountain guide is strongly criticized.

Shortly after the publication of his book Bukrejew died on December 25, 1997 an avalanche on Annapurna.

Background

In 1996, the Russian mountaineer Anatoli Bukrejew takes part in an expedition to the summit of Mount Everest as a paid mountain guide for the American company Mountain Madness. In the course of the summit climber climbing several different expeditions lose after a sudden change in the weather due to frost, exhaustion and crashes their lives. Bukrejew led several completely exhausted expedition members, who were lost in the snow storm and at night and to minus had to bivouac 40 degrees outside in the storm and temperatures, despite the previous effort of his Gipfelersteigung back to the fourth high camp, and saved as at least three people's lives that would have frozen to death otherwise disoriented, and without shelter, food, water and oxygen. Of the six people who get lost on the way down to the South Col and the camp had missed four, five were rescued, at least three mainly by Bukrejews use. For his selfless rescue Bukrejew was awarded the David Sowles Award.

(→ Main article: accident on Mount Everest (1996))