“Powerful...a breath of brisk, sometimes bitter clarity...Boukreev did the one thing that denies the void. He took action. He chose danger, and he saved lives.”──The New York Times Book Review
“Boukreev heroically rescued several climbers from certain death...[The Climb] gives an excellent account of the May 1996 disaster.”──Chicago Tribune
“Compelling...[The Climb] has a ring of authenticity that challenges the slickly written Into Thin Air.”──Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Provocative...compelling reading, both as an adventure and a spiritual reckoning.”──The New Mexican
“Boukreev acted with extraordinary heroism...[In﹛The Climb] first-person anecdotes, plus excerpts from taped base-camp interviews, are skillfully fleshed out by coauthor G. Weston DeWalt.”──Rock & Ice Magazine