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Interesting! Would you compare Roberts' book with Boukreev's response to Into Thin Air, The Climb?
by isaachawley 6y ago
Interesting! Would you compare Roberts' book with Boukreev's response to Into Thin Air, The Climb?
- liversage 6y agoHonestly, it's many years since I read these books so my memory is a bit hazy, but from what I remember Boukreev's book was a response to what he saw as Krakauer's criticism of his actions as a climbing leader during the fatal 1996 Everest disaster. Roberts is more like a historian with the perspective that Herzog perhaps wasn't so heroic after all but instead, despite poor leadership and reckless decision-making, was saved by his companions that were the true unsung heroes of the expedition. The first book is a rebuttal, the second is trying to reveal what really happened many years ago.