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

By (author): "Jon Krakauer"
Publish Date: 1997
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
ISBN1402809654
ISBN139781402809651
AsinInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
CharactersRob Hall, Jon Krakauer
Original titleInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
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.