I walked over to monument hill at Annapurna Sanctuary Base Camp to have a moment's silence for Anatoli Boukreev and Demetri Soublev, who died Christmas Day, 1997 in an avalanche. Boukreev had moved into the media spotlight in the wake of the tragic Mount Everest climb of May 1996, as written in Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer. Boukreev then wrote his side of the story in his book The Climb.