Into Thin Air: Personal Account of the Everest Disaster

Description

This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.

Promotion info

Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize.

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9780330353977
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Imprint : Pan Books
• Publication date : August 1998
• Dimensions : 197mm X 130mm
• Produced in : United Kingdom
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Illustrations : 8pp colour photographs
• BIC subject : True stories of endurance & survival; Climbing & mountaineering
• Pages : 293
• Dewey classification : 796.522095496
• Edition : New edition
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : Jon Krakauer