# Everest (the movie based on the 1996 disaster) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 25, 2015, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485 "2015-09-25T14:35:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485/41 "2015-10-24T18:10:24Z")
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**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485/42 "2015-10-24T18:18:42Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Here’s a film made by [David Breashears](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ5olbdXd10) discussing the 1996 trip and the storm, with interviews with several survivors. Yes, and also I enjoyed the video of Reinhold Messner speaking about the Jon Krakauer/Anitoli _(sic)_ Boukreev Everest Controversy. It’s about 10 minutes long, IIRC. In it, Messner validates Krakauer’s description of Boukreev and his approaches to climbing and to guiding. At the end of Ratcliffe’s book is a nice bibliography which I’m now using as a to-read list and as a reminder of books I read years ago. So far, I have read these: _Into Thin Air_ - Jon Krakauer (-- about 6 or 7 times now) _Everest: Mountain Without Mercy_ - Broughton Coburn _No Shortcuts to the Top_ - Ed Viesturs _The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest_ - Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt _Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer_ - Anatoli Boukreev and Linda Wylie _High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places_ - David Breashears _Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest_ - Beck Weathers and Stephen G. Michaud _A Day to Die For_ - Graham Ratcliffe Below, I have yet to read these - I especially want to read Groom’s because he was immediately there as one of the guides; Gammelgaard’s because she was immediately there as one of the clients, and she summitted; and Salkeld’s 2 books because she is the renowned Everest historian: _The Wind in my Hair_ - Brigitte Muir _Climbing Everest: Tales of Triumph and Tragedy on the World’s Highest Mountain_ - Audrey Salkeld _Emergency on Everest_ - Audrey Salkeld _Sheer Will_ - Michael Groom _Climbing High_ - Lene Gammelgaard _The Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm_ - Matt Dickinson I may have already said this, that I will need to renew my library card! Here is the complete bibliography from Ratcliffe’s book: > [@](#): > > Boukreev, Anatoli and G. Weston DeWalt. The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1998. > > Boukreev, Anatoli and Linda Wylie. Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer. New York: St Martin’s Press, 2001. > > Breashears, David. High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. > > Coburn, Broughton. Everest: Mountain Without Mercy. National Geographic Books, 1997. > > Dickinson, Matt. The Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm. United Kingdom: Arrow Books, 1998. > > Gammelgaard, Lene. Climbing High: A Woman’s Account of Surviving the Everest Tragedy. London: Pan Books, 2000. > > Groom, Michael. Sheer Will: The Inspiring Life and Climbs of Michael Groom. Australia: William Heinemann, 1997. > > Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster. New York: Villard Books, 1997. > > Krakauer, Jon Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster. New York: First Anchor Book Trade Paperback Edition, November 1999. > > Muir, Brigitte. The Wind in My Hair. Australia: Penguin Books Australia, 1998. > > Rose, David and Ed Douglas. Regions of the Heart: The Triumph and Tragedy of Alison Hargreaves. London: Penguin Books, 1999. > > Salkeld, Audrey, ‘Emergency on Everest’, The Alpine Journal 1997, vol. 102, no. 346. > > Viesturs, Ed. No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World’s 14 Highest Peaks. New York: Broadway Books, 2006. > > Weathers, Beck with Stephen G. Michaud. Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest. London: Time Warner, 2003. Excerpt From: Ratcliffe, Graham. “A Day to Die For.” MainStream, 2013-05-15. Books. This material may be protected by copyright. Check out this book on the iBooks Store: [https://itun.es/us/f6\_cA.l](https://itun.es/us/f6_cA.l) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485/43 "2015-10-25T00:19:38Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Below, I have yet to read these - I especially want to read Groom’s because he was immediately there as one of the guides; Gammelgaard’s because she was immediately there as one of the clients, and she summitted; and Salkeld’s 2 books because she is the renowned Everest historian: > > _The Wind in my Hair_ - Brigitte Muir > _Climbing Everest: Tales of Triumph and Tragedy on the World’s Highest Mountain_ - Audrey Salkeld > _Emergency on Everest_ - Audrey Salkeld > _Sheer Will_ - Michael Groom > _Climbing High_ - Lene Gammelgaard > _The Death Zone: Climbing Everest Through the Killer Storm_ - Matt Dickinson FWIW, while Gammelgaard and Weathers both have interesting stories to tell, neither of them (or their respective ghosts) wrote a compelling book. I soldiered through Gammelgaard’s but only recommend it for the 1996 Disaster Completist. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485/44 "2015-10-25T02:08:08Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > FWIW, while Gammelgaard and Weathers both have interesting stories to tell, neither of them (or their respective ghosts) wrote a compelling book. I soldiered through Gammelgaard’s but only recommend it for the 1996 Disaster Completist. Agreed, Weathers’ book was not a compelling story. I quicky skimmed over parts not directly related to the Spring 1996 climbing season. I found myself doing that for Ratcliffe’s book too, except that my focus included not just his Spring 1995 & 1996 climbs, but also his researching of the 1996 disaster. You want a compelling story? _Into Thin Air_, easily. And then Broughton Coburn’s book makes for a nice coffee table book with its large format and excellent photography. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2015, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485/45 "2015-10-25T12:07:45Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Yes, and also I enjoyed the video of Reinhold Messner speaking about the Jon Krakauer/Anitoli _(sic)_ Boukreev Everest Controversy. It’s about 10 minutes long, IIRC. In it, Messner validates Krakauer’s description of Boukreev and his approaches to climbing and to guiding. Here is the [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaWHdHPwkV0) for anyone interested. Messner speaks about having met both Krakauer and Bougreev. He says that Krakauer’s description of Boukreev’s attitude and behavior was spot on with his own experience. The comments on that video state something I hadn’t heard before. Someone claims that Scott Fischer and the Sherpas had tainted oxygen, that’s why they were sick. Anyone know about this claim? ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2015, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485/46 "2015-10-26T20:49:55Z")
Sorry if it’s been covered but: What are the best documentaries about the 1996 season (On Youtube)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everest-the-movie-based-on-the-1996-disaster/732485.md?page=2)