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Nonfiction1997

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

by Jon Krakauer

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A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster.

Publisher
Anchor Books
Genres
Nonfiction, Adventure, Memoir, Travel, Biography

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