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

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

Jon Krakauer

384 pages hardcover 1997

78 editions

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Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet, on the afternoon of May 10, 1996. Reeling from oxygen and sleep deprivation, he began his descent, passing twenty climbers pushing doggedly for the top. No one had noticed the signs of a...

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