From the Paperback editionĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:37:08 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA102313 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon 5D City New York Edition 1st Anchor Books ed. What is is about Everest that has compelled so many poeple-including himself-to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense? Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement. Beyond the terrors of this account, however, he also peers deeply into the myth of the world's tallest mountain. Taking the reader step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his readers shaking on the edge of their seat.

Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the Wild. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Originally published: New York : Villard, c1997

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