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What is Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer?
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer.
What year was Into Thin Air written
Into Thin Air was written in 1997
Was Into Thin Air a bestseller
Into Thin Air reached the top of The New York Times' non-fiction bestseller list.
Did anyone else give praise to Into Thin Air besides The New York Times
The American Academy of Arts and Letters gave Jon Krakauer an Academy Award in Literature in 1999 for his work.

Question: Did the author himself climb the Everest
Self-contained rewrite: Did Jon Krakauer himself climb the Everest