Into Thin Air

This book is one of the most gripping books that I have read so far and Jon's narrative is so powerful that, my dreams were haunted by these incidents for a few days... I feel that looking at the color pictures of all the places in the trail to Mt. Everest that Jon mentions in the book like the "treacherous" Khumbu Icefall, Western Cwm etc., made my reading more vivid and interesting! ;-)

finishing this book with a HEAVY heart, i began to read more about the tragedy in the internet and here are some of my follow-up readings...

• Mt.Everest in IMAX

If you are one of those arm chair adventurers trying to summit Mt.Everest again and again, then you should probably watch the IMAX Everest movie and get this book on the IMAX expedition - "Everest : Mountain Without Mercy" - it is a large size hard cover book with spectacular pictures of Mt.Everest - it is a must-keep book for all the Everest Fans...

• "The Climb : Tragic Ambitions on Everest"
  

This book was written by Anatoli Boukreev & Weston DeWalt, to rebut the accusations made against Anatoli by Jon. I tried reading it very fast just to catch the differences but it was not as interesting as reading about this disaster first time. Nevertheless, after reading "Into Thin Air", if you feel that there were some mistakes on Anatoli's part, (like where he decides to descend first without waiting for others,) then "The Climb" will help you see Anatoli's perspective on doing such things.

• Anatoli Bourkeev / Lopsang Jangbu / Jon discuss the controversies from the book
  

• Rare color photos from Neil Beidleman and Scott Fischer's camera - (please beware that there is a picture of a dead frozen climber in the slideshow)

I think Scott's camera was collected by the IMAX team, which summited within a few weeks after this disaster. As is customary, i think all the dead climbers in the mountain, were left where their passion was...