This week, alpinist Anatoli Boukreev would have turned 67. One of the best alpinists of the 20th century, Boukreev made hundreds of bold ascents and several incredible speed climbs. He was genuine, ...

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 ...

Rescues at high altitude are rarely successful and considered suicidal. Yet, miracles do happen, and a 1996 tragedy featured in the movie, Everest, showed how one climber managed to save three lives ...

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.

What are your opinions of Anatoli Boukreev’s decision to guide a team of inexperienced Indonesians to the summit of Everest this spring? Also, interestingly, in reading the interview with Scott ...

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 ...

Mountain-climbing quotes. Hate them for their cliches or love ’em for their inspiration, climbing quotes are a central part of our sport’s history. Climbing quotes capture a moment in time, like ...

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 ...

Adventure books have gone so mainstream over the last two years that even your dentist can debate the merits of Anatoli Boukreev’s oxygen-deprived exploits on Everest in 1996. And, ever intent on ...

Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreïev (Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев), born January 16, 1958 in Korkino and died December 25, 1997 in Annapurna, was a Kazakh mountaineer and mountain guide. Having ...