Into Thin Air
Subtitle: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Publisher: Anchor
Published: October 19, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780385494786
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.