In the article, “Anatoli Boukreev (Responds to Krakauer), author Anatoli Boukreev discusses the topic of the questionable decisions he made on the fatal day of May 10, 1996 that resulted in several fatalities of Mount Everest climbers. He asserts the notion that though Krakauer judges his actions as “unjustly critical,”that day, (in his article “Into Thin Air”) he believed he did everything in his power to assert the safety of himself and others. Throughout the article, Boukreev emphasizes several times that he based his actions and decisions in thought of others. For instance, in paragraph 3, Boukreev states that because he had “no radio link to those below[him], [he] began to wonder is there were difficulties down the mountain,” he decided