Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This week, alpinist Anatoli Boukreev would have turned 67. One of the best alpinists of the 20th century, Boukreev made hundreds ...

A new posthumous collection of Anatoli Boukreev’s writings entitled “Above the clouds - The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer” has recently been published. A new posthumous collection of Anatoli ...

Rescues at high altitude are rarely successful and considered suicidal. Yet, miracles do happen, and a 1996 tragedy featured in the movie, Everest, showed how one climber managed to save three lives ...

A Nepalese army rescue helicopter scoured the slopes of Mt. Annapurna in the Himalayas Monday for a noted Russian mountaineer presumed killed by an avalanche on Christmas Day. Nepal’s Tourism Ministry ...

Why didn’t Fischer insist everyone use oxygen? Question: Jon, What are your opinions of Anatoli Boukreev’s decision to guide a team of inexperienced Indonesians to the summit of Everest this spring?

Forecast: The bestselling status of Boukreev's first book as well as continuing interest in the 1996 attempt to climb Mt. Everest should promise sizable, serious readership. Classicist Kuin (Lucian’s ...

This documentary tells via the testimonies of people who knew him (like Simone Moro, his companion during his last ascent), the life, the mountaineering exploits and the very tolerant character of ...

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