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Author : Anatoli Boukreev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Mount Everett Expedition( 1996)
ISBN : OCLC:1326404046
Author : Anatoli Boukreev,G. Weston DeWalt
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250099822
Everest, the major motion picture from Universal Pictures, is set for wide release on September 18, 2015. Read The Climb, Anatoli Boukreev (portrayed by Ingvar Sigurðsson in the film) and G. Weston DeWalt’s compelling account of those fateful events on Everest. In May 1996 three expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Crowded conditions slowed their progress. Late in the day twenty-three men and women-including expedition leaders Scott Fischer and Rob Hall-were caught in a ferocious blizzard. Disoriented and out of oxygen, climbers struggled to find their way down the mountain as darkness approached. Alone and climbing blind, Anatoli Boukreev brought climbers back from the edge of certain death. This new edition includes a transcript of the Mountain Madness expedition debriefing recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. Weston DeWalt's response to Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30T22:59:00Z
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798822540934
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 In 1996, the Sherpa ethnic group in Nepal were concerned about a star that appeared in the night sky over the Himalaya. It was the beginning of the spring season on Mount Everest, and Sherpa climbers had died in the past due to the mountain’s harsh environment. #2 As Todd waited for the snows to melt in the north, Kami Noru Sherpa and the Sherpas from Pangboche trekked to the Everest Base Camp, where they would join the expeditions that had hired them. They would help establish camps, carry loads up the mountain, and cook for and serve the climbers. #3 In the early 1980s, the number of climbers and expedition support personnel who would gather in the Everest Base Camp during the spring season could have fit into one Paris metro car. In 1996, more than four hundred people would eventually come up the trail and pitch their tents. #4 In May 1995, Rob Hall, the head of the Adventure Consultants Guided Expedition, turned all of his clients back from their bid to the summit as deep snows at higher elevations had slowed their progress. In 1996, Hall was back, ready to go again, determined to get back into the win column.
Author : Anatoli Boukreev
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 031229137X
Contains the author's recollections and diary entries of his acheivements climbing the world's highest mountains, including Mount McKinley, Makalu, Manaslu, and his 1996 Everest expedition that ended in his death.
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679462712
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." —PEOPLE A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. Clearly, Krakauer remains haunted by the disaster, and although he relates a number of incidents in which he acted selflessly and even heroically, he seems unable to view those instances objectively. In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself. This updated trade paperback edition of Into Thin Air includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy. "I have no doubt that Boukreev's intentions were good on summit day," writes Krakauer in the postscript, dated August 1999. "What disturbs me, though, was Boukreev's refusal to acknowledge the possibility that he made even a single poor decision. Never did he indicate that perhaps it wasn't the best choice to climb without gas or go down ahead of his clients." As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory; he points most of his criticism at G. Weston De Walt, who coauthored The Climb, Boukreev's version of events. And in a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points. Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in an avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I. In 1999, Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment." According to the Academy's citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind."
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780307475251
The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived.
Author : Dennis N.T. Perkins,Margaret P. Holtman,Paul R. Kessler,Catherine McCarthy
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814431610
Drawing on the amazing story of Shackleton and his polar exploration team’s survival against all odds, author Dennis N. T. Perkins demonstrates the importance of a strong leader in times of adversity, uncertainty, and change. Part adventure tale and part leadership guide, Leading at the Edge uncovers what the legendary Antarctic adventure of Sir Ernest Shackleton, his ship Endurance, and his team of twenty-seven polar explorers can teach us about bringing order to chaos through true leadership. Among other skills, you’ll learn how to: instill optimism while staying grounded in reality, step up to risks worth taking, consistently reinforce your team message, set a personal example, find things to celebrate, laugh small things off, and--even in the face of extreme temperatures, hazardous ice, scarce food, and complete isolation--never give up. This second edition of Leading at the Edge features additional lessons, new case studies of the strategies in action, tools to uncover and resolve conflicts, and expanded resources. An updated epilogue compares the leadership styles of the famous polar explorers Shackleton, Amundsen, and Scott, which transcend the one-hundred-plus years since their historic race to the South Pole to help today’s leaders learn valuable lessons about the meaning of true success.
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0898861187
Moments of Doubt is a collection of 20 essays and articles on mountaineering and adventure by David Roberts, selected from the published works of two decades. It showcases one of the most highly regarded writers in the field.
Author : Nicholas S. Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000044520526
These compelling profiles of 22 adventurous yet unlucky climbers chronicle more than a century of exploration recreation and tragedy in New Hampshire's Presidential Range
Author : Joseph L. Sax
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : 047209324X
Proposes a novel scheme for the protection and management of America's national parks Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Peter Zuckerman,Amanda Padoan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393084085
Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award: "Gripping, intense…Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]." —Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe When eleven climbers died on K2 in 2008, two Sherpas survived. Their astonishing tale became the stuff of mountaineering legend. This white-knuckle adventure follows the Sherpas from their remote villages in Nepal to the peak of the world’s most dangerous mountain, recounting one of the most dramatic disasters in alpine history from a fascinating new perspective. Winner of the NCTE George Orwell Award and an official selection of the American Alpine Club Book Club.
Author : David Roberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Huntington, Mount
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004070806
Account of first ascent of west face of Mt. Huntington, Alaska, in 1965.
Author : Beck Weathers,Stephen G. Michaud
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780375505881
With a new preface by the author • As featured in the upcoming motion picture Everest, starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and Jake Gyllenhaal “I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling—quite literally a dead man walking—into camp and the shaky start of my return to life.” In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him. Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared, blinded, gloveless, and caked with ice—walking down the mountain. In this powerful memoir, now featuring a new Preface, Weathers describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed eight climbers, but the journey of his life. This is the story of a man’s route to a dangerous sport and a fateful expedition, as well as the road of recovery he has traveled since; of survival in the face of certain death, the reclaiming of a family and a life; and of the most extraordinary adventure of all: finding the courage to say yes when life offers us a second chance. Praise for Left for Dead “Riveting . . . [a] remarkable survival story . . . Left for Dead takes a long, critical look at climbing: Weathers is particularly candid about how the demanding sport altered and strained his relationships.”—USA Today “Ultimately, this engrossing tale depicts the difficulty of a man’s struggle to reform his life.”—Publishers Weekly
Author : Alfred Lansing
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465058792
Experience one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age in this New York Times bestseller: the harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. With an introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick, Endurance is the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip. Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the gripping and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age.
Author : Fergus White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973422719
There is but one aim: the summit, the summit of Mount Everest.What starts with a trouble-free trek into the Nepalese highlands explodes into a gripping tale of hardship, peril, and adversity. Pushed beyond their physical and mental limits, climbers drop by the wayside. Their primal instincts for survival battle with their dogged resolve to drag themselves to the top of the world. But the focus remains: battle to the summit, and if successful, somehow get back down again.White plunges the reader into a land of subzero temperatures, asphyxiating air, and ever increasing danger. Base Camp and the world above it come to life in this riveting, true novel. The inner workings of an Everest expedition team and what it takes to climb the world's highest mountain are laid bare. Some return from the death zone injured. Some do not return at all.Success and failure vie for supremacy throughout.This personal, day-by-day chronicle takes the reader along every step of an Everest climb. A must for climbing enthusiasts, lovers of adventure, and adrenaline junkies; the closing chapters will leave you breathless.