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Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster / Jon Krakauer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Krakauer, Jon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Adventure Consultants. Guided Expedition (1996 : Mount Everest).
- Adventure Consultants.
- Adventure Consultants. Guided Expedition.
- Mountain Madness (Firm). Everest Expedition (1996).
- Mountain Madness (Firm).
- Mountain Madness (Firm). Everest Expedition.
- Krakauer, Jon.
- Mount Everest Expedition (1996).
- Mount Everest Expedition.
- Mount Everest Expedition (1976).
- Mountaineering accidents--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).
- Mountaineering accidents.
- Mountaineering expeditions--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal).
- Mountaineering expeditions.
- Mountaineering--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)--History.
- Mountaineering--history.
- Expeditions--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Mountaineering--history.
- Expeditions--history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 293 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Villard, [1997]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. 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. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty 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 that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were in a desperate struggle for their lives. 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. 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. 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.
- Contents:
- Adventure consultants guided expedition
- Mountain madness guided expedition
- MacGillivray Freeman Imax/lIwerks expedition
- Taiwanese national expedition
- Johannesburg Sunday Times expedition
- Alpine ascents international guided expedition
- International commercial expedition
- Swedish solo expedition
- Norwegian solo expedition
- Himalayan guides commercial expedition
- New Zealand-Malaysian guided Pumori expedition
- American commercial Pumori/Lhotse expedition
- Nepali Everest cleaning expedition
- Himalayan rescue association clinic
- Indo-Tibetan border police Everest expedition
- Japanese-Fukuoka Everest expedition.
- Notes:
- Map on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 293).
- Provides lists of persons involved, grouped by expedition name.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Garden State Book Award (2000)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780679462712
- 0679462716
- Publisher Number:
- 99984115832
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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