Above The Clouds: The Diaries Of A High-Altitude MountaineerA breathtaking and lavishly illustrated autobiography in essays on Anatoli Boukreev, the late world famous mountaineer and author of The Climb. When Anatoli Boukreev died on the slopes of Annapurna on Christmas day, 1997, the world lost one of the greatest adventurers of our time. In Above the Clouds, both the man and his incredible climbs on Mt. McKinley, K2, Makalu, Manaslu, and Everest including his diary entries on the infamous 1996 disaster,