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Into Thin Air Full Book Summary. Jon Krakauer, author and mountain climber, is hired by Outside Magazine to write an article about the commercialism on Mount Everest. Krakauer decides he wants to climb the mountain, and joins the most disastrous Everest expedition in history.
Margaret A. Edwards Award (Alex Awards) WINNER 1998. New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age WINNER. YALSA Best Books for Young Adults WINNER. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including...
Into Thin Air. Jon Krakauer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 12, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of...
Oct 19, 1999 · Overview. Notes From Your Bookseller. Krakauer’s personal account of the Mt. Everest disaster in 1996 is haunting, unnerving, and deeply moving. As Krakauer recollects the events of that fateful climb, we are reminded not only of the risks of mountaineering, but also the survivor’s guilt that plagues those that made it down from Mt. Everest.
Overview. Into Thin Air is a nonfiction book by outdoors writer Jon Krakauer that was first published in 1997. It describes in great detail the tragedy that Krakauer witnessed and participated in when eight climbers attempting to summit Mount Everest died when a storm hit.
Into Thin Air is about Krakauer’s expedition to climb Everest, which resulted in a notorious catastrophe. In March of 1996, Krakauer flies to Kathmandu, where he meets his guide, Rob Hall. Hall is a famous mountaineer, known for being extremely cautious and orderly with his clients.
On this expedition, Krakauer climbs primarily with strangers and he is uncomfortable putting his life in the hands of people whose presence on the mountain is not necessarily a tribute to their climbing skills. Throughout the book, when one client gets in trouble, another must help immediately.
