![]() ![]() This edition also includes the transcript of the Mountain Madness debriefing, recorded five days after the tragedy, as well as G. The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev is an honest and gripping account of true endurance and contains interviews with most of the surviving climbers, medical personnel, Sherpa guides, and families of the dead who experienced the tragedy. Rescuing a number of people from certain death, he emerged a hero. Experienced high-altitude guide Anatoli Boukreev led an exhausted and terrified group of climbers back to safety before going back out into the blizzard to help others stranded on the mountain. ![]() Disorientated, out of oxygen and depleted of supplied, the climbers struggled to find their way to safety. As they neared the summit twenty-three men and women, including the expedition leaders, were caught in a ferocious blizzard. ![]() Each group contained world class climbers and relative novices, some of whom had paid tens of thousands of pounds for the climb. In May 1996 a number of expeditions attempted to climb Mount Everest on the Southeast Ridge route. ![]()
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