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Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster / Jon Krakauer ; [illustrations by Randy Rackliff].

Summary:

"Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996. He hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds ..." "This is the terrifying story of what really happened that fateful day at the top of the world, during what would be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. In this harrowing yet breathtaking narrative, Krakauer takes the reader along with his ill-fated expedition, step by precarious step, from Katmandu to the mountain's pinnacle where, plagued by a combination of hubris, greed, poor judgment, and plain bad luck, they would fall prey to the mountain's unpredictable fury."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0385494785
ISBN: 9780385494786
ISBN: 9780780780989
ISBN: 0780780981
ISBN: 9780679457527
ISBN: 0679457526
ISBN: 0375502807
ISBN: 9780375502804
ISBN: 9780333717523
ISBN: 0333727525
ISBN: 9780333727522
ISBN: 9780385494786
ISBN: 033371752X
Physical Description: xxv, 333 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 21 cm
Edition: First Anchor books trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : Anchor Books, 1999.
Copyright: ©1999

Content descriptions

General Note:	"New afterword by the author"--Cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (page 335).
Formatted Contents Note:	Everest summit, May 10, 1996, 29,028 ft -- Dehra Dun, India, 1852, 2,234 ft -- Over northern India, March 29, 1996, 30,000 ft -- Phakoing, March 31, 1996, 9,186 ft -- Lobuje, April 8, 1996, 16,200 ft -- Everest base camp, April 12, 1996, 17,600 ft -- Camp One, April 13, 1996, 19,500 ft -- Camp One, April 16, 1996, 19,500 ft -- Camp Two, April 28, 1996, 21,300 ft -- Lhotse Face, April 29, 1996, 23,400 ft -- Base camp, May 6, 1996, 17,600 ft -- Camp Three, May 9, 1996, 24,000 ft -- Southeast Ridge, May 10, 1996, 27,600 ft -- Summit, 1:12 p.m., May 10, 1996, 29,028 ft -- Summit, 1:25 p.m., May 10, 1996, 29,028 ft -- South Col, 6:00 a.m., May 11, 1996, 26,000 ft -- Summit, 3:40 p.m., May 10, 1996, 29,028 ft -- Northeast Ridge, May 10, 1996, 28,550 ft -- South Col, 7:30 a.m., May 11, 1996, 26,000 ft -- The Geneva Spur, 9:45 a.m., May 12, 1996, 25,900 ft -- Everest base camp, May 13, 1996, 17,600 ft -- Epilogue: Seattle, November 29, 1996, 270 ft.