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

0 pages, Unbound

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: 0 pages, Unbound
Published: January 1, 1997 by Books on Tape Incorporated
ISBN: 9780736637541
ASIN: 0736637540
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...