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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (original 1997; edition 1997)

by Jon Krakauer

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

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Anatoli Boukreev

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Important places

Mount Everest / Sagarmatha

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Important events

1996 Mount Everest Disaster

Related movies

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997 | IMDb)

Everest (2015 | IMDb)

Epigraph

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragey which is actually being staged in the civilised world. —José Ortega y Gasset

Dedication

For Linda; and in memory of Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, Rob Hall, Yasuko Namba, Scott Fischer, Ngawang Topche Sherpa, Chen Yu-Nana, Bruce Herrod, and Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa

First words

Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet.

Quotations

Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, in the boldest style imaginable. John Krakauer

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Please distinguish between print editions of Jon Krakauer's 1997 memoir, Into Thin Air, and the abridged audio version. Thank you.

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Genres

Biography & Memoir

Sports and Leisure

Melvil Decimal System (DDC)

796.522092The Arts › Recreational and performing arts › Athletic and outdoor sports and games › Outdoor leisure › Exploring geological features › Mountains, hills and rocks › History, geographic treatment, biography

LC Classification

GV199.E85Geography, Anthropology and Recreation › Recreation. Leisure › Recreation. Leisure › Outdoor life. Outdoor recreation › Hiking. Pedestrian tours

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