Into Thin Air
A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Hiking, Adventure Travel, and Survival Story.
A bank of clouds was assembling on the notsodistant horizon, but journalistmountaineer 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 moreincluding Krakauer'sin guiltridden disarray, would also pro...
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Recommended by 6 sources and appears in Hiking, Adventure Travel, and Survival Story.
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