Anatoli Boukreev was a Russian climber who was criticised (probably unfairly) in Jon Krakauer's book 'Into Thin Air' for his role in the 1996 Everest disaster. Boukreev was killed by an avalanche whilst attempting a winter alpine-style ascent of Annapurna I.
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