Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

jon krakauer

This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.

Genres nonfictionadventurememoirtravelbiographyhistorysurvivalaudiobookmountaineeringbook club

291 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1,1997

Literary awards

pulitzer prize, ala alex award, national book critics circle award, boardman tasker prize,

Places

nepal, mount everest,

This edition

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1997 by Barnes \u0026 Noble
ISBN: 9781402809651
ASIN: 1402809654
Language: English

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Rob Hall

Robert Edwin "Rob" Hall (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996) was a New Zealand mountaineer best known for being the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition in which he, a fellow guide, and two clients perished. A best-selling account of the expedition wa...
Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books—Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven...