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 …
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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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- 3756
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- 1898
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Into Thin Air
337, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 01 Gennaio 2021
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- 978-0-385-49478-6ISBN copiato!
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Into Thin Air
Hardcover
lingua English
Pubblicato il 01 Dicembre 1998 da Villard.
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- 978-0-676-58402-8ISBN copiato!
Into Thin Air: Dummy Signed Edition
Hardcover
lingua English
Pubblicato il 08 Dicembre 1997 da Villard.
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- 978-0-676-54314-8ISBN copiato!
Tragédie à l'Everest
Copertina rigida, 350 pagine
lingua French
Pubblicato da Guérin.
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- 978-2-911755-15-6ISBN copiato!
Into thin air
[sound recording] /
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1997 da Books on Tape.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7366-5136-3ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 45012614
Into Thin Air
Audio Cassette
lingua English
Pubblicato il 08 Dicembre 2000 da Listening Library.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8072-8828-3ISBN copiato!
Sheng mu feng zhi si
335, pagine
lingua Chinese
Pubblicato il 2014 da Da jia chu ban.
- ISBN:
- 978-986-6179-79-2ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 917328025
Into thin air
407, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 08 Settembre 1998 da Villard.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-375-50280-4ISBN copiato!
Into Thin Air
Audio Cassette
lingua English
Pubblicato il 06 Aprile 1998 da Random House Audio.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-553-50219-0ISBN copiato!
- Numero OCLC:
- 39226277
Into Thin Air (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2007 da Sterling Publishing Co., Inc..
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4114-8954-7ISBN copiato!
Into Thin Air Flr
lingua English
Pubblicato il 1996 da Dell.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-440-78464-7ISBN copiato!
De ijle lucht in
lingua Dutch
Pubblicato il 1998 da Prometheus.
- ISBN:
- 978-90-5333-594-9ISBN copiato!
Into Thin Air
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2014 da SparkNotes, Sterling.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4114-7590-8ISBN copiato!
Into Thin Air
368, pagine
lingua English
Pubblicato il 01 Gennaio 1999
Into Thin Air
lingua English
Pubblicato il 2002 da Pearson Education, Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-582-50190-4ISBN copiato!
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