Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Title: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Author: Jon Krakauer ISBN: 9780679457527 Publisher: Villard Published: 1997 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Edition: First Edition Number of Pages: 293 Section: Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers Publisher Description: When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in 57 hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, 20 other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning he learned t