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Author:	Jon Krakauer	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Villard Books	Edition:	1
ISBN-10:	0679457526	ISBN-13:	9780679457527
Subject:	Special Interest / Adventure	Publication Year:	1997
Topic:	--	Special Attributes:	--
Language:	English	Condition:	Good

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In 1996, on a magazine assignment, Krakauer joined an expedition up Mount Everest led by the New Zealand climber Rob Hall. He arrived at the summit just before a blizzard struck in which Hall and nine other climbers were killed. This book is Krakauer's first-person account of the tragedy.
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Length:	291 pages
Height:	10.0 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	21.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadnt 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 hadnt made it back to their camp and were desperately struggling 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.Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, the most respected high-altitude guide in the world. A rangy, thirty-five-year-old New Zealander, Hall had summited Everest four times between 1990 and 1995 and had led thirty-nine climbers to the top. Ascending the mountain in close proximity to Halls team was a guided expedition led by Scott Fischer, a forty-year-old American with legendary strength and drive who had climbed the peak without supplemental oxygen in 1994. But neither Hall nor Fischer survived the rogue storm that struck in May 1996.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 eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.Into the Wild is available on audio, read by actor Campbell Scott.
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"The author of three previous books..., he [Krakauer] has produced a narrative both meticulously researched and deftly constructed." New York Times Book Review - Alastair Scott (05/18/1997) "Though 'Into Thin Air' comes less than a year after that trip, it hasn't weakened Krakauer's reporting skills. He's scrupulously fair and honest about his co-climbers and guides. He records acts of selfishness and foolishness as well as acts of bravery, sometimes all from the same person. When the worst comes, it's from the recognizably human combination of honest mistakes, carelessness, refusal to consider the worst and sheer bad luck. And Krakauer confronts what may have been his own part in the deaths of some of those people with a tormented conscience. Krakauer writes indelibly, agonizingly, on the physical torment of existing, let alone exerting yourself, at high altitude. He's brilliant on the particular brand of masochistic asceticism that drives mountain climbers." Taylor "Krakauer is both a world-class mountaineer and arguably the best in the English language at writing about his deadly sport." Skow [Krakauer's] fascinating and troubling account of the climb, is no chronicle of triumph. He was in ragged physical shape. A wracking cough had torn loose chest cartilage; his body had burned away 20 lbs. of muscle mass; he was running out of bottled oxygen. But the deadliest element of his situation was one he barely noticed; innocent-looking clouds rising from valleys to the south. . . . Krakauer, a thoughtful man and a fine writer (his Into the Wild, a report of a wilderness death in Alaska, was one of the best nonfiction books of 1996), says the ratio of misery to pleasure on Everest was greater than on any other mountain he has climbed. He draws no ringing conclusions from the disaster, although he thinks that banning bottled oxygen might keep weaker climbers off the mountain. <BR>Annotation copyright H.W. Wilson Company. Time - John Skow (04/21/1997)

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

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0679457526
Title : Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
EAN : 9780679457527
Authors : Jon Krakauer
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Villard Books
Publication Date : 1997-04-22
Pages : 320
List Price (MSRP) : 26.95
Height : 1.2000 inches
Width : 6.6000 inches
Length : 9.4000 inches
Weight : 1.4000 pounds
Keywords : General, Mountain Climbing, Air Travel, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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