Book summaryIn 1996, on a magazine assignment, Krakauer joined an expedition up Mount Everest led by the New Zealand climber Rob Hall. He arrived at the summit just before a blizzard struck in which Hall and nine other climbers were killed. This book is Krakauer's first-person account of the tragedy. Media reviews"Krakauer is both a world-class mountaineer and arguably the best in the English language at writing about his deadly sport." |
Into Thin Air A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disasterby Krakauer, Jon
Book description: Bantam Books, 1998. Paperback. Good. 378 pp., Good, Paperback, binding is tight, text is clean, pages are yellowed, cover has light shelfwear wtih spine creases
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