[Serb5150]

There were some really great discussions happening on the last Everest thread so I thought I'd open up the topic again with a new story and a real hero.

A number of Freepers mentioned a book called 'Into Thin Air' on the previous thread that really piqued my interest. I haven't picked it up yet, but hopefully I'll be able to do so before very long.

[Mr. Brightside]

A number of Freepers mentioned a book called 'Into Thin Air'

Another account of the same climb is called, The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (Mass Market Paperback) by the Russian climber Anatoli Boukreev.

Boukreev was the Russian climber who went out an rescued other climbers. His feat was almost super human in that he was going out in a subzero blizzard on the highest mountain in the world, having not slept for days, with very little to eat and with little or no oxygen.

[Mr. Brightside]

And a side not about the Russian climber. He died on K2 a couple of years after the fateful 96 climb.