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General Climbing Discussion
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Touching the Void |
24-Jan-2004 At 2:51:22 PM |
Pei
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On 23/01/2004 Mighty Mouse wrote:
>i felt that JK offered a very single minded and even egotistic view of
>the events of '96. maybe being such an Anatoli Bourkreev fan gives me too
>much of a bias (john states that anatoli acts irresponsibily as a guide
>which is about as far from the truth as it gets) but JK definately plays
>down the abilities of the other climbers, and in doing so bignotes himself
>and pisses off at least one reader....
That's sort of how I felt about the book, though I'd never heard of Anatoli Bourkreev before (I don't know a lot about mountaineering). But I still found it well written and a good read. I haven't read Touching the Void, maybe I'll see if the library has a copy. |
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