Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

Author: Jon Krakauer
ISBN: 9780385494786 National Bestseller A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including Krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would als More »