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Clint Willis’s book tells the story of your band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering through 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 had become know as Bonington’s Boys — included twelve who became climbing’s greatest generation. Bonington’s Boys gave birth to a fresh brand of climbing. They took increasingly terrible risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world’s most fearsome peaks. And they paid a massive price because of 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 a remedy that we’ll ever have. It offers riveting descriptions of what Bonington's Boys within the mountains, as well as an understanding of what they lost there.
