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Title	:	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Author	:	Jon Krakauer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 368 pages
Published	:	October 19th 1999 by Anchor Books (first published May 1st 1997)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Adventure

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Paperback | Pages: 368 pages

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A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster.

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Original Title:	Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
ISBN:	0385494785 (ISBN13: 9780385494786)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Rob Hall, Jon Krakauer
Setting:	Nepal Mount Everest
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (1998), ALA Alex Award (1998), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1997), Boardman Tasker Prize Nominee for Mountain Literature (1997)

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Into Thin Air or Injustice (of many kinds) on the Mountain.Until almost the end this book was exactly as I expected it to be with just one exception. It was the story of a journalist climbing Mount Everest both as a journalist and as a mountaineer. Ideal getting paid to do your hobby! It was interesting because Krakauer is a damn good writer and because its fascinating to see the details of how the mountain is climbed. Its also disappointing because few individuals do it by themselves, without a

This was one book that had me setting my alarm early to read before heading off the gym and work.

i feel beyond guilty for finding so much fascination with what was the most horrific moment in krakauers life. i am a terrible human, but i honestly couldnt put this down. there is just something about krakauers writing that makes me think his grocery lists are equally alluring. and knowing how personal this was for him made this book that much more captivating for me. i loved how this is formatted, the way the facts are presented, and how coherent the timeline and his commentary is. just

Until 2014, one of the trail markers for mountaineers climbing the Everest on the main Northeast ridge route was "Green Boots", the corpse of a man wearing, well, green climbing boots - yes, a dead man was an Everest landmark, and people passed him by and photographed him (I will certainly not provide links). Most likely, it was the body of Head Constable Tsewang Paljor of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police who was part of an expedition that happened in the background of the 1996 Mount Everest

Utterly harrowing and propulsive. I could not put this book down. This is another book that details people's misguided quests to conquer nature--to see nature as something to be conquered. It's also another great cold-weather read, to make you realize that, really, it's not so cold out after all.

I call attention to Paul Bryant's entertaining review of this book:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Which itself calls attention to the several people who have died on Everest in the past WEEK, not dissuaded by this story, obviously, which every climber knows well in multiple versions. This is the thing about risk-takers, death-defiers, mountain climbers, they must do what they must do.I love this book. I listened to it on a road trip from Chicago to New Orleans on my spring break, 2004.

Read within the span of 10 hours. This is not a hard read, well, if you take out the subject matter. I picked this up because 'Into the Wild' has been out or on hold for months at the library so I thought I'd at least get a feel for Jon Krakauer's writing style. I also have to admit that it wasn't the writing style that sold me, not that it isn't well done, but usually I'm not drawn to 'personal accounts' or non-fiction, in general, unless it is a subject that really fascinates me. I'm an