Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Hardcover - 1997
by Jon Krakauer
Last spring, Jon Krakauer, the acclaimed author of "Into the Wild", undertook a magazine assignment about expensive adventure/thrill trips around the world. And, in May, he went with an expedition to Mt. Everest, investigating how wise or safe it is to tackle the world's tallest peak. When disaster struck, killing eight climbers, Krakauer survived by luck, skill, and discipline. Now, he has written the definitive account of this headline-making tragedy.
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When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. 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. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were in a desperate struggle for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people - 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 eye-witness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
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- Title Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
- Author Jon Krakauer
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Villard Books, New York
- Date 1997-04-22
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Maps
- ISBN 9780679457527 / 0679457526
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.51 x 6.56 x 1.06 in (24.16 x 16.66 x 2.69 cm)
- Reading level 1320
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Mountain Madness (Firm), Mountaineering expeditions - Everest, Mount
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96030031
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.522
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Citations
- ALA Best Books Young Adults, 01/01/1998, Page 1211
- Booklist, 04/01/1997, Page 1276
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/27/2008, Page 98
- Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/1997, Page 357
- Library Journal, 04/01/1997, Page 117
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 01/01/1997, Page 72
- New York Times, 05/18/1997, Page 11
- Outside, 10/01/2007, Page 66
- Publishers Weekly, 03/17/1997, Page 63
- School Library Journal, 11/01/1997, Page 150
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