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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 jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds...Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the Wild. Taking the reader step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his readers shaking on the edge of their seat. Beyond the terrors of this account, however, he also peers deeply into the myth of the world's tallest mountain. What is is about Everest that has compelled so many poeple--including himself--to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense? Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.From the Paperback edition.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
August 25, 2009, Anchor
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
August 7, 2007, RH Audio
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Into Thin Air
October 26, 2004, RH Audio Price-less
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
July 2003, Tandem Library
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Into Thin Air
December 2000, Listening Library
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Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
1999, Anchor Books/Doubleday
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0385494785 9780385494786
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Into Thin Air
October 1999, Sagebrush Education Resources
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Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
1999, Anchor Books/Doubleday
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
October 19, 1999, Anchor
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
October 1999, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
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Into Thin Air
April 6, 1998, Random House Audio
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Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster
1998, Pan Books
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Into Thin Air
April 6, 1998, Random House Audio
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Into Thin Air
1998, Random House Publishing Group
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Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
1998, Villard
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Into thin air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
1998, Anchor Books/Doubleday
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Into Thin Air the
January 1, 1998, Arcade Publishing
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Into Thin Air: Dummy Signed Edition: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
December 8, 1997, Villard
Hardcover
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Into thin air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
1997, G.K. Hall
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Into thin air: a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
1997, Villard
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Into Thin Air: A personal account of the Everest disaster
1997, MacMillan
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"Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet."
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"Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet."
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