Originally Posted by cpvdh

kind of a long drama of a story
in "into thin air" he placed blame on Anatoli Beaukreev as being responsible for some of the climbers deaths on everest
Anatoli Beaukreev wrote a book with the help of another author called "the climb" that told his side of the story
they differ quite a bit and i think its pretty clear that krakauer lied, or at least to his defense got confused about some of the details and placed blame where it should not have gone

read both books if your interested at all, its pretty cool to see the same story from two sides, and they are really excellent books for their own parts