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Loading... Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disasterby Jon Krakauer
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Very interesting story of mountain climber and his climb to the top of Mount Everest. (  ) janismack | Nov 23, 2009 |  In 1996, sponsored by Outside magazine, Krakauer went on a guided climb of Mount Everest, reaching the summit on a day that turned out to be one of the most deadly in Everest's history. A sudden storm trapped members of several expeditions near the summit, and eight people died. Krakauer's chronicle of these events is harrowing and gripping. (  ) codyne | Nov 19, 2009 | A classic for the arm chair adventurer, outdoors enthusiast, or true adventurer. The story has its detractors. In particular, other who end up in Krakauer's version of the story. My grumbling is that the author comes off sounding very proud of himself and finds few of his own errors. ( ) dougcornelius | Nov 12, 2009 | MsPibel | Nov 6, 2009 | Krakauer was a member of a commercial guided expedition to Mount Everest in 1996. He was assigned to write about the commericalization of Everest, but his expedition and another were caught poorly prepared in the summit trek, and 8 perished, including the two organizers of the expeditions. The narrative was superbly fastpaced, and gripping, especially in the description of the horrible endurance required when the oxygen is low above 25000 feet. The mountain is a regular tourist trap, with used supplemental oxygen cylinders accumulating on the summit, and horrible hygenic conditions on the way up. It did nothing to encourage me to take up rock climbing, let alone high althitude climbing (  ) neurodrew | Oct 4, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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