This gripping account of courage, achievement, and heartbreaking loss tells the story of Bonington’s Boys, a band of climbers who reinvented mountaineering through the three decades after Everest’s first ascent. The boyish, fanatically powered Chris Bonington’s internal circle included twelve of the very most renowned climbers, who required increasingly terrible dangers on now legendary expeditions towards the world’s most fearsome peaks, and paid a massive price. Many of them died in the mountains, abandoning the hardest query of all: was it worth it?

Based on interviews with surviving climbers and others, as well as five decades of journals, expedition accounts, and characters, The Boys of Everest supplies the closest thing to a remedy that we can ever have. It provides riveting descriptions of what Bonington’s Guys within the mountains, aswell as a knowledge of what they lost there.