
Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also pro...
Publish Date
1999
October 19
First Published in 1997
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4.19
ISBN
9780385494786
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