He came from the narod, the common people, and his parents were both poor. Boukreev's companion, Linda Wylie, edited his memoirs and published them in 2002 under the title, Above the Clouds: The Diaries of a High-Altitude Mountaineer.īoukreev was born in Korkino, within the Russian SFSR Soviet Union (in the present Chelyabinsk Oblast). In 1997, Boukreev was killed in an avalanche during a winter ascent of Annapurna in Nepal. He became even more widely known for his role in saving climbers during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8000 m.īoukreev had a reputation as an elite mountaineer in international climbing circles for summiting K2 in 1993 and Mount Everest via the North Ridge route in 1995. Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev ( Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев Janu– December 25, 1997) was a Russian Kazakhstani mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks, i.e., peaks above 8,000 m (26,247 ft), without supplemental oxygen.
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