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The Climb is the gripping true story of one of the worst mountaineering tragedies in history. In May 1996, two groups attempted to ascend Mount Everest. As the climbers neared the summit, they were overtaken by intense snow and wind and found their crucial oxygen supplies depleted. Five of them died, including the expedition's two leaders. Boukreev led his group back to safety, then went back out in the blizzard to help others stranded on the mountain....
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A history of Mount Everest expedition is intertwined with the disastrous expedition the author was a part of, during which five members were killed by a hurricane-strength blizzard. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty...
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