Although Krakauer’s Into Thin Air was a riveting tale of dangerous and perilous adventure, Anatoli Boukreev’s version of the deadly 1996 climbing season on Mount Everest told in his ghost written book, The Climb, co-written by G. Weston Dewalt, was far more believable, in large part due to the highly conflicting details between the two novels, and Boukreev’s modest storytelling that stuck to what he knew on that mountain, unlike Krakauer’s accusation expedition style of storytelling, where he attempts to put the blame of essentially the entire tragedy on Boukreev’s shoulders.
Adding up to a little more than three hundred pages, Krakauer’s novel Into Thin Air voices his opinions, judgements, and observations about the events leading up to, during, and after the deadly 1996 Mount Everest summit assault. Part of the guided group Adventure Consultants led by Rob Hall, Krakauer …show more content…
Boukreev’s team, Mountain Madness, came out with miniscule, comparatively, injuries and casualties. Seemingly intent on slandering Boukreev’s name, Krakauer continuously diminishes the former’s accomplishments and claims blatant lies and misunderstandings founded on baseless assumptions. Into Thin Air depicts Boukreev as a foreign, self-interested, insolent man who is overconfident in his climbing abilities and knows it. All this, despite Krakauer not even being a part of the same team as Boukreev to fully encompass his personality and skill. In opposition to this viewpoint, Boukreev was a natural, determined, and caring guide who did what he was paid to do, guide and assist his clients up the mountain to the best of his ability, especially when they were in dire need of his aid and savior. His account of the tragic adventure on Mount Everest in 1996 displays his heroic abilities and life-saving attempts tremendously and
Adding up to a little more than three hundred pages, Krakauer’s novel Into Thin Air voices his opinions, judgements, and observations about the events leading up to, during, and after the deadly 1996 Mount Everest summit assault. Part of the guided group Adventure Consultants led by Rob Hall, Krakauer …show more content…
Boukreev’s team, Mountain Madness, came out with miniscule, comparatively, injuries and casualties. Seemingly intent on slandering Boukreev’s name, Krakauer continuously diminishes the former’s accomplishments and claims blatant lies and misunderstandings founded on baseless assumptions. Into Thin Air depicts Boukreev as a foreign, self-interested, insolent man who is overconfident in his climbing abilities and knows it. All this, despite Krakauer not even being a part of the same team as Boukreev to fully encompass his personality and skill. In opposition to this viewpoint, Boukreev was a natural, determined, and caring guide who did what he was paid to do, guide and assist his clients up the mountain to the best of his ability, especially when they were in dire need of his aid and savior. His account of the tragic adventure on Mount Everest in 1996 displays his heroic abilities and life-saving attempts tremendously and