Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
- ISBN-10
- 0385494785
- ISBN-13
- 9780385494786
- Series
- Into Thin Air
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Author
- Jon Krakauer
Description
The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived
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