Tragic events of May 1996 on Everest are history of collision of out-of-limit ambitions, steel will, vital errors and unprecedented selflessness. An international expedition unexpectedly turned around a catastrophe - and unique, not having analogues in the world of by a rescue operation.Book of direct participant of ascent, prominent alpinist Anatoliy Букреева in detail, day after a day, describes the course of events. She in details recreates history that underlay блокбастера of Балтазара Кормакура "Everest".To recover a complete picture that happened on the slope of very tall top of Earth, decoding of records of negotiations of alpinists, and also remembrances of colleagues and friends of Anatoliy help.