Best considered a counterpoint to Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air. This book tells Anatoli Bourkreev's perspective on the famous 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Bourkreev felt he was portrayed unfairly in Krakauer's book. The two are best read together to make a fuller picture of the events that transpired on Everest that season.
This is a paperback reading copy, 297 pages with an eight-page B&W photographic insert in the middle.
