|a Includes bibliographical references (page 293). |a Provides lists of persons involved, grouped by expedition name. |a xx, 293 pages : |b illustrations |c 25 cm |a Personal account of the Mount Everest disaster |a Into thin air : |b a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster / |c Jon Krakauer.
|a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d XY4 |d BAKER |d OCLCQ |d YDXCP |d BTCTA |d ZWQ |d WGTPL |d OG# |d BDX |d OCLCO |d SBM |d OCLCA |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d OCLCQ |d EUW |d OCLCQ |d FEM |d NCRJL |d OCLCO |d KSU |d CHY |d OCLCO |d XFF |d OCLCO |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d SAV |d CSA |d CHILD |d GRC |d OCLCO |d PX9 |d TFW |d OCLCO |d MYL |d GK8 |d OCLCO |d CNO |d OCLCO |d BRL |d OCL |d FM0 |d XXWGB |d BGU |d HQY |d W8A |d TZ7 |d TXSPI |d BDP |d UKMGB |d YBM |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCL |d ZHC |d COM Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eye-witness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people - including himself - to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated. The following morning he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were in a desperate struggle for their lives.
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. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.
Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. A history of Mount Everest expedition is intertwined with the disastrous expedition the author was a part of, during which five members were killed by a hurricane-strength blizzard.
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