Read by James Adams

"The Boys of Everest" by Clint Willis tells the gripping story of "Bonington's Boys," 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 heartbreaking loss. Chris Bonington's inner circle included a dozen of mountaineering's most legendary figures-Don Whillans, John Harlin, Dougal Haston, Doug Scott, Peter Boardman, Joe Tasker, and others-who together gave birth to a new brand of climbing. They took increasingly challenging risks on now-legendary expeditions to the world's most fearsome peaks, and they paid an enormous price. Most of them died in the mountains, leaving behind the hardest question of all: was it worth it?

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