by Jon Krakauer · Editorial Empúries · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788475966113
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«La febre del cim» is Jon Krakauer's chronicle of the Everest tragedy, published by Editorial Empúries in paperback (300 pages, in Catalan).
Krakauer recounts the 1996 Everest expedition, in which he took part on assignment from Outside magazine; a storm caught several teams on the mountain and eight climbers died. The first-person account is combined with the history of Everest and an analysis of the human factors that led to the disaster.
Catalan translation by Bernat Puig Tobella; the work was originally published in English as «Into Thin Air» (1997). Narrativa collection, number 86.
A work for fans of non-fiction, mountaineering and real survival chronicles.
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.
