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An adaptation of jon krakauers best selling book, into thin air. Into thin air is a gripping, haunting account of the now infamous 1996 guided everest expedition that went horribly wrong, resulting in 8 deaths. Written within months of the events it chronicles, into thin air clearly evokes the majestic everest landscape. Into thin air book johnson county library bibliocommons. A bank of clouds was assembling on the notsodistant horizon, but journalistmountaineer jon krakauer, standing on the summit of mt. Into thin air, outside magazine, september 1996, which he later expanded into a book by the same title. Everest in the early afternoon of may 10, 1996, he hadnt slept in fiftyseven hours and was reeling from the. Everest, saw nothing that suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down. All told, eight people perished, making it one of the deadliest days in the mountains history. May 01, 1997 into thin air, jon krakauer into thin air.

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