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Clint Willis's book tells the story of a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering during the three decades after Everest's first ascent. It is a story of tremendous courage, astonishing achievement and heart-breaking loss. Their leader was the boyish, fanatically driven Chris Bonington. His inner circle - which came to be know as Bonington's Boys - included a dozen who became climbing's greatest generation. Bonington's Boys gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly terrible risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks. And they paid an enormous price for their achievements. Most of Bonington's Boys died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: Was it worth it? The Boys of Everest, based on interviews with surviving climbers and other individuals, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and letters, provides the closest thing to an answer that we'll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys found in the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.

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Tucson Citizen <br> This gripping account, written by a seasoned reporter, is fascinating and powerful.

Tucson Citizen This gripping account, written by a seasoned reporter, is fascinating and powerful. Tucson Citizen, 5/29/08 This gripping account, written by a seasoned reporter, is fascinating and powerful. InfoDad.com, 5/22/08 Contains enough stirring adventure so it may be attractive to people interested in what sorts of people climbed the world's highest mountain before it became a tourist destination, why they made the ascent, and what happened to them. Bookviews.com Why people climb mountains remains a mystery except for the most widely repeated answer, 'Because they are there.' This book helps explain why for these men.

Tucson Citizen This gripping account, written by a seasoned reporter, is fascinating and powerful.

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