Jon Krakauer's acclaimed account of a disastrous expedition on Mt Everest
Jon Krakauer is the author of Eiger Dreams, Into the Wild, and Under the Banner of Heaven, and is editor of the Modern Library Exploration series. He lives in the USA.
[Krakauer] has produced a narrative that is both meticulously
researched and deftly constructed. -- Alastair Scott * New York
Times Book Review *
This is a great book, among the best ever on mountaineering.
Gracefully and efficiently written, carefully researched, and
actually lived by its narrator. * Washington Post *
Into Thin Air ranks among the great adventure books of all
time. * Wall Street Journal *
A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story
of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism. *
People *
Krakauer is an extremely gifted storyteller as well as a
relentlessly honest and even-handed journalist, the story is
riveting and wonderfully complex in its own right . . .To call the
book an adventure saga seems not to recognize that it is also a
deeply thoughtful and finely wrought philosophical examination of
the self. * Elle *
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