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 enlarge | Author: Anatoli Boukreev
Creators: Galen Rowell, Linda Wylie
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 75523
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 031229137X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522092
EAN: 9780312291372
ASIN: 031229137X
Publication Date: December 1, 2002
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 Above the Clouds Goes Above and Beyond Expectations March 23, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is excellent reading for "armchair enthusiasts", serious mountaineers, or anyone in between. Before reading this book I did not even know who Anatoli was. Now, I see him as one of the true great mountaineers. I really related to his feelings for the mountains, and I share many of his philosophies regarding climbing. Reaching the summit is not success; to be successful, you must make it safely down. Even if Mallory and Irvine reached the summit of Everest, they didn't achieve success by living to tell about it.
As a mountaineer and author myself, I was very pleased how easy I could relate to Anatoli's feelings and philosophies about the sport of mountaineering. On page 123 he states that he treated the mountains "like cathedrals where worship gives you strength and strips off the scale of ordinary life." He also told a different version of the accounts of the disastrous climbing month in May 1996 on Mt. Everest, which catapulted high altitude mountaineering to the front pages of newspapers around the world. I still view Reinhold Messner as the best mountaineer of all time, but had Anatoli lived longer he would have surely closed the gap.TJ Burr
Mountaineer/Author
"Rocky Mountain Adventure Collection"
The Soul of a Mountain Climber November 27, 2001
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a terrific book by one of the most famous and least-understood mountain climbers of our time. Boukreev was known to only a small group of mountaineering insiders before the publication of Krakauer's Into Thin Air and then Boukreev's own bestseller The Climb. Here, he reveals himself to be a thoughtful, poetic yet tough-minded, and extremely intelligent writer. This book not only covers adventures on Everest, Mt. McKinley, K2, Annapurna, and elsewhere, but also reveals little known and fascinating details about Russia and Kazakhstan and the USSR climbing culture in which Boukreev was raised. Anyone interested in climbing will love this book. (It has terrific photos too, most of them taken by Boukreev from the tops of the peaks he scaled.)
An Epic tale of one mans life! October 3, 2001
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
A must read, and epic story of Anatoli Boukreev.
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