Into Thin Air

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• Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer

  "His voice sounded like a record played at half speed. It was slow and creaky. I was three thousand feet below him. I was lying in a tent inside a sleeping bag with everything I had on, and I was unable to get warm. Just think of what he must have su ... (read full critics)

  bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

• Anti-Social Climbing

  On the night of 10 May 1996, 19 climbers were stranded in a blinding storm on the upper flanks of Mount Everest. The temperature dropped to −100° Fahrenheit. Whipped up by fierce winds, spindrift blasted the mountainside on which envelopes of thick c ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Tue, 7 Sep 2010

8 Reviews

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  Read this in high school. Brings perspective about death, survival, living, people, actions, weather, place, and telling a personal story in a journalistic way. I still feel this book.

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  eudaemonian said on Mar 18, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  A great read. I won't be climbing Everest anytime soon....

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  Dave Sanders said on Feb 2, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Loved this book. The description of the adventure was amazing. Despite my complete lack of knowledge of mountain climbing, I felt that I was up there on the mountain with them all.

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  Hesanford said on Oct 14, 2009 about the Audio CD edition | Add your feedback

• Have given up finishing it. I am not a mountain climber, not even a sport lover, so it's kind of hard to read it through.

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  史默 said on Oct 14, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  great account of the tragic Everst expedition... Krakauer writes great descriptions without slowing the pace of the story....

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  Shelly Mae said on Jul 29, 2008 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  When I first read this book I found it fascinating and the account of events on Everest quite upsetting. Since this time I have read many other accounts of the events on 10 May 1996. As a result I'm not as quick to praise 'Into Thin Air' any more. It is an absorbing read and remains one of the best ... (continue)

  When I first read this book I found it fascinating and the account of events on Everest quite upsetting. Since this time I have read many other accounts of the events on 10 May 1996. As a result I'm not as quick to praise 'Into Thin Air' any more. It is an absorbing read and remains one of the best written books on this subject, but there are enough disputed points to ensure it can not be considered the bible of the events that took place on that date.
  If you were to only choose one book to read on this disaster, this would probably be the one to read.

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  Hyoung said on Mar 13, 2008 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Hardcover
• ISBN-10: 1402809654
• ISBN-13: 9781402809651
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Pub date: May 01, 1997
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Unbound and Others
• In other languages: other languages Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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