INTO THIN AIR : A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Krakauer, Jon
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From 100POCKETS, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since March 7, 2000
About this Item
BRAND NEW COPY w/trace creasing to lower front of dustjacket w/photo of Rob Hall's 1996 team at Mt. Everest Base Camp to rear. Maps to endpapers. 1996, a deadly year in Everest history; 15 mountaineers meet their death. Journalist & accomplished climber Jon Krakauer (1954 -), representing Outside Magazine, was with the South Ridge party led by Rob Hall & Scott Fischer, neither of whom survived. Portions of text first published in the Outside. Volume sparked considerable controversy; guide Anatoli Boukreev co-authored a rebuttal to this account under the title: The Climb. Tragedies to climbers on the mountain's North Ridge, where several climbers also died, is detailed in a first hand account by British filmmaker and writer Matt Dickinson in The Other Side of Everest. Seller Inventory # 018316
Bibliographic Details
Title: INTO THIN AIR : A Personal Account of the Mt...
Publisher: Villard Books, New York, NY
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Randy Rackliff (Illustrator)
Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition, 4th Printing
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