The story was mildly interesting, but the book wasn't. The copy I read was huge, like a coffee table book, with photographs, about half of which were interesting. Much of it was taken up by every quote the editor could find from any source whatsoever that happened to include the word "mountain." Even Hornbein's account was frequently interrupted by verbatim conversations the expedition members had about choices they had to make.

One member of the expedition was killed early on when a wall of ice fell on him. Two others had severe frostbite and had to have toes amputated. I still don't get why anyone things it's worthwhile to climb an already-climbed mountain.