by Jon Krakauer · Panmacmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447203681
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«Into Thin Air» is Jon Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (326 pages, in English).
Krakauer recounts in the first person the May 1996 Everest expedition, when a storm caught several teams on the descent and five climbers died. The author, sent by Outside Magazine, reconstructs the decisions that led to the disaster and analyzes the commercialization of Everest.
It received the ALA Alex Award in 1998 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. This edition was published in 2011.
Recommended for readers of nonfiction and stories of mountains, survival, and narrative journalism, with an interest in the limits of human ambition.
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air.
