>>368206>>368209Anon that went to North Pole here (
>>364065), it's indeed right that saving others puts you at risk, and it takes some balls to do it. But I think you missed the part where Jon Krakauer pretends to have helped people when he did NOT, AND proceeded to shit on Anatoli Boukreev who DID help others.
The full story is that Boukreev climbed to the summit twice during a storm, without oxygen, to save people, and then went down to rest only to climb back up again and save more, leaving his own expedition on the top. He did this "disregarding security", only to save people. This drove Krakauer mad because according to him, those risks he took could potentially have put his own expedition at risk. Yet his expedition survived, and Boukreev saved at least three people and helped many others.
But because Krakauer is a stupid American, he's been shitting on Boukreev, even after his death, simply because he didn't behave the way a "guide" is to be expected in occidental culture, and that made him mad as fuck as he thinks a guide should babysit everyone rather than save lives. Well Jon, not everyone was on his first 8000er like you. But he wasn't actually paid as a "guide", but as a "coach": he wasn't responsible for their lives. His expedition was well-prepared, and he left them because they all knew they could go down on their own. People on his own expedition praised him for what he did.
If you've seen the movie "the Big Blue", just imagine the same thing about mountain climbing, and you have the life of Anatoli Boukreev: just a week after this incident where he saved three people, he summited the Lhotse, a neighboring peak. He was a true mountaineer. He wrote a book too, called "The Climb", which is apparently worth a read, actually as a response to "Into Thin Air". He sold the rights to Universal, we might have a movie with the truth one day.
Krakauer is just a liar who wrote a shitty book filled with American entitlement and faggotry.
