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Old 05-25-2012, 11:58 PM   #81
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The Russian guide who climbed without Oxygen while guiding people up the mountain. Not that responsible in my books. I didn't think Krakauer makes himself sound heroic at all. I think he talks about his failures in regards to getting Weathers down the mountain earlier. But I would say reading both gives you good perspectives on what happened.

Everest is an interesting place. People making life and death decisions while essentially drunk with all of the incentives placed on climbing rather than not dying. Its easy to survive Mount Everest. You have a turn around time and you stick to it. People die when the two O'clock turn around hits and they are only 2 hours from the summit and keep going.
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He was regarded as the best climber in the world at the time and ALWAYS acclimitized properly so he never used oxygen on any of his climbs whereas these tourists NEVER acclimized. Yes read both but I didn't like how they blamed anatoli for the failures especially when he asked Krakauer to help but he didn't want to and outdoor magazine wouldn't print Anatoli's rebuttal to Krakauers version
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