Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, alpinist Anatoli Boukreev would have turned 67. One of the best alpinists of the 20th century, Boukreev made hundreds ...

For anyone with even a passing knowledge of the fatal events on Mount Everest during the 1996 climbing season (the one chronicled in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air), the lessons of Greek tragedy spring ...

A new posthumous collection of Anatoli Boukreev’s writings entitled “Above the clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer” has recently been published. A new posthumous collection of Anatoli ...

"Above the Clouds", which is a much more knowledgeable, and very honest reading. (In his last years, Anatoli was soloing 8k peaks, as if trying to meet his fate.) Also, we often celebrate those heroes ...

Rescues at high altitude are rarely successful and considered suicidal. Yet, miracles do happen, and a 1996 tragedy featured in the movie, Everest, showed how one climber managed to save three lives ...

Why didn’t Fischer insist everyone use oxygen? Question: Jon, What are your opinions of Anatoli Boukreev’s decision to guide a team of inexperienced Indonesians to the summit of Everest this spring?

The Climb Anatoli Boukreev & G Weston DeWalt (Macmillan, £16.99) This is essential for anyone who has read Jon Krakauer's celebrated Into Thin Air. It is an account of the same disastrous Everest ...

INTO THIN AIR By Jon Krakauer, Villard, $ 24.95 THE CLIMB By Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt, St Martin, $ 24.95 Mount Everest holds a tremendous and sometimes morbid fascination for mountain ...

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Everest books are a peculiar sub-genre of nonfiction. The recollections of climbers (and, as a result, authors) are always called into the question by the availability, at any given time, of oxygen.