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Into Thin Air

A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

by Jon Krakauer

1997 320 pages eng ★ 4.4 (39 ratings)

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 the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus…

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