INTO THIN AIR : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Krakauer, Jon
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679457526
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457527
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About This Item
New York, NY: Villard Books, 1997. First Edition, 4th Printing . Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Near Fine. Randy Rackliff (Illustrator). BRAND NEW COPY w/trace creasing to lower front of dustjacket w/photo of Rob Hall's 1996 team at Mt. Everest Base Camp to rear. Maps to endpapers. 1996, a deadly year in Everest history; 15 mountaineers meet their death. Journalist & accomplished climber Jon Krakauer (1954 -), representing Outside Magazine, was with the South Ridge party led by Rob Hall & Scott Fischer, neither of whom survived. Portions of text first published in the Outside. Volume sparked considerable controversy; guide Anatoli Boukreev co-authored a rebuttal to this account under the title: The Climb. Tragedies to climbers on the mountain's North Ridge, where several climbers also died, is detailed in a first hand account by British filmmaker and writer Matt Dickinson in The Other Side of Everest.
Synopsis
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer.
Reviews
On Feb 28 2017, a reader said:
very suspenseful. Interesting and sounds dangerous.
On Oct 2 2010, AngelaAndrews said:
The book arrived in excellent condition. It was like-new!
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 018316
- Title
- INTO THIN AIR : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
- Author
- Krakauer, Jon
- Illustrator
- Randy Rackliff (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New NEW - COLLECTIBLE
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 4th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0679457526
- ISBN 13
- 9780679457527
- Publisher
- Villard Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- Mountaineering/Mount Everest 1996 Cimbing Season
- Bookseller catalogs
- Journalism/Documentary;
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