Evan’s Reviews > The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest > Status Update

Almost back to base camp with this one. Another great mountaineering read.

Much better book than I expected. Much better.

This book is a lot better than I expected, even with the strange "hand-off" style between DeWalt's contextual third-person blocks of text alternating with Boukreev's translated first-person reminiscences. It's not as jarring as it could be.

Very good read. Hard to put down, actually.

Once again I'm finding it impossible to put down a good mountaineering story. Hope I get to bed tonight. I've stayed up all night reading these things.