The Boys of Everest: Chris Bonington and the Tragedy of Climbing’s Greatest Generation Audiobook (Free)

This gripping account of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells the story of Bonington’s Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. The boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington’s internal circle included a dozen of the most renowned climbers, who got increasingly terrible risks on now famous expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks, and paid an enormous price. Many of them passed away in the mountains, abandoning the hardest query of most: was it worth it?

Based on interviews with surviving climbers as well as others, aswell as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and characters, The Boys of Everest provides the closest thing to a remedy that we will ever have. It includes riveting explanations of what Bonington’s Males found in the mountains, as well as a knowledge of what they dropped there.