Into Thin Air
By Jon Krakauer

A true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.
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Into Thin Air
9781743295540
by Jon Krakauer
Macmillan
1 November 1999
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304
1.87 MB
15+ years (15-99)
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Author Biography
Jon Krakauer is the author of Eiger Dreams, Into the Wild, and Under the Banner of Heaven, and is editor of the Modern Library Exploration series. He lives in the USA.