Into Thin Air
Subtitle: A personal account of the Everest disaster
By: Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize Mountain Literature
Publisher: Pan Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9780330353977
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: Climbing & mountaineering; True stories of endurance & survival; Himalayas; Sports
First sentence: Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.