Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer
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"A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism."  —  People Magazine

"Into Thin Air ranks among the great adventure books of all time . . . a book of rare eloquence and power that could remain relevant for centuries."   -  Galen Rowell, The Wall Street Journal

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 also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air, Krakauer's epic account of the May 1996 disaster. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. \In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself.

"And onto thin ice—Krakauer's (Into the Wild, 1995) hypnotic, rattling, firsthand account of a commercial expedition up Mt. Everest that went way wrong... A brilliantly told story, and one that won't go begging when the year's literary honours are doled out."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Jahr:
2009
Verlag:
Anchor Books
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
434
ISBN 10:
0307475255
ISBN 13:
9780307475251
ISBN:
B009IIPNZW
Datei:
EPUB, 374 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2009
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