Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, alpinist Anatoli Boukreev would have turned 67. One of the best alpinists of the 20th century, Boukreev made hundreds ...

A new posthumous collection of Anatoli Boukreev’s writings entitled “Above the clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer” has recently been published. A new posthumous collection of Anatoli ...

For anyone with even a passing knowledge of the fatal events on Mount Everest during the 1996 climbing season (the one chronicled in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air), the lessons of Greek tragedy spring ...

Forecast: The bestselling status of Boukreev's first book as well as continuing interest in the 1996 attempt to climb Mt. Everest should promise sizable, serious readership.

Why didn’t Fischer insist everyone use oxygen? Question: Jon, What are your opinions of Anatoli Boukreev’s decision to guide a team of inexperienced Indonesians to the summit of Everest this spring?

This documentary tells via the testimonies of people who knew him (like Simone Moro, his companion during his last ascent), the life, the mountaineering exploits and the very tolerant character of ...

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INTO THIN AIR By Jon Krakauer, Villard, $ 24.95 THE CLIMB By Anatoli Boukreev & G. Weston DeWalt, St Martin, $ 24.95 Mount Everest holds a tremendous and sometimes morbid fascination for mountain ...

Want to watch 'Unconquerable Summit' on your favorite screen? Here are a few important points to remember about the documentary flick. Unconquerable Summit starring Anatoli Boukreev, Simone Moro, ...