Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Jon Krakauer
291 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1402809654
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Language: English
Publish: 852105600000
AdventureBiographyHistoryMemoirMountaineeringNatureNonfictionSportsSurvivalTravel
This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak’s history.