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Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
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In May 1996 the journalist Jon Krakauer joined a guided expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. It was an assignment to report on the booming business of commercial high-altitude climbing. Within hours of reaching the top, a violent storm swept over the mountain and caught several teams in the thin air of the death zone. Krakauer tells what happened from inside the events, as both climber and witness. His account covers ambition, money, exhaustion and impossible decisions in the most hostile place on Earth. It is tense, immediate and searching narrative nonfiction about risk and responsibility, and about the pull of the world's highest peak.
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