Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster

Author(s)

• Krakauer, Jon

Bibliographic Information

Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster

Jon Krakauer

Pan, 1998, c1997

Note

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1997

Bibliography; p. 293

Description and Table of Contents

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.

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Details

• NCID: BA56227900
• ISBN:
  • 0330353977
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxii, 293 p.,[8]p of plates
• Size: 20cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 796.522092
• Subject Headings:
  • BLSH : Krakauer, Jon
  • BLSH : Mount Everest Expedition (1996)
  • LCSH : Mountaineering accidents -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
  • LCSH : Mountaineering accidents