Into thin air
Subtitle: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
By: Jon Krakauer
Edition: 1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780385494786
Subjects: Mountaineering accidents; Mountaineering expeditions; Mountain Madness (Firm); Mountain Madness (Firm). Everest Expedition (1996); Adventure Consultants; Adventure Consultants. Guided Expedition (1996 : Mount Everest); Mount Everest Expedition (1996)
Description: "Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds..." "This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top of the world, during what would be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. In this harrowing yet breathtaking narrative, Krakauer takes the reader along with his ill-fated expedition, step by precarious step, from Katmandu to the mountain's pinnacle where, plagued by a combination of hubris, greed, poor judgment, and plain bad luck, they would fall prey to the mountain's unpredictable fury."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "New afterword by the author"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]).