Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages368 pages
ISBN
9780385494786
Published
1997
Description
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 ...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, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster.