Full name: Into Thin Air: a Personal Account of the Mount Everest disaster

Author: Jon Krakauer Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Adventure, Award winners, Travel, Memoirs, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads OpenLibrary Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385494786 0385494785

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer 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 more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster. Similar books: Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer High Exposure by David Breashears The Climb by Anatoli Boukreev Touch the Top of the World by Erik Weihenmayer In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Endurance by Alfred Lansing The Lost City of Z by David Grann The Endurance by Caroline Alexander A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols Into the Silence by Wade Davis Dead Lucky by Lincoln Hall A Sense of the World by Jason Roberts Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank Worsley Captain Scott by Ranulph Fiennes In the Land of White Death by Valerian Albanov Scott's Last Expedition by Robert Falcon Scott Jungle of Stone by William Carlsen Down the Great Unknown by Edward Dolnick