description: 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.
language: English
title: Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
titlecomplete: Into Thin Air : A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
characters: Jon Krakauer, Rob Hall
genres: Biography, Travel, Sports, Mountaineering, Nonfiction, Adventure, History, Memoir, Survival, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 486848
places: Mount Everest, Nepal
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Boardman Tasker Prize
category: Mountain Literature
publisher: Books on Tape Incorporated