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

By: Jon Krakauer

Published October 19th 1999 by Anchor Books (first published 1997)

Category: Arts

Pages: 368 pages

ISBN: 9780385494786

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 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.