Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

After reading this book and then "The Climb" by Anatoli Boukreev, I am disgusted by the detestable lies Krakauer KNOWINGLY printed in this book. Honestly, it makes me sick to think about it. Krakauer bashed and blamed Boukreev - the legendary hero of the day - who went alone back into the storm at night to save lives while Krakauer sat in his tent and did NOTHING to help ANYONE. This is a level of vileness I am still choking on. And then to top it off Krakauer did nothing but praise Rob Hall - the man who led a bunch of mountaineer novices into volatile weather, with no ropes in place and not enough supplemental oxygen - just to abandon them all. What Hall did to Beck is just horrifying - telling him to wait there for him and then never sending anyone to help him. Never even TELLING anyone that Beck was waiting for him. When Krakauer saw Beck high up on the mountain, frozen and unable to see, and JUST LEFT HIM THERE I just could not believe anyone could actually be that selfish and cruel. Hall and Krakauer left Beck and everyone else for Dead. But they are the heroes and Boukreev, the guy who saved everyone, is the bad guy. Seriously wtf.