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099 eBook Boundless
100 1 Krakauer, Jon.
245 10 Into thin air|h[Boundless electronic resource] :|ba
personal account of the Mount Everest disaster /|cJon
Krakauer.
250 First edition.
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264 4 |c©1997
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520 The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest,
a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight
climbers, and explains why he survived.
520 A history of Mount Everest expedition is intertwined with
the disastrous expedition the author was a part of, during
which five members were killed by a hurricane-strength
blizzard. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt.
Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't
slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-
altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to
begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty
other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.
No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with
clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot
winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent,
freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but
safe. The following morning he learned that six of his
fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were
in a desperate struggle for their lives. When the storm
finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth
so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to
be amputated. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest
that has compelled so many people - including himself - to
throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved
ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk,
hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and
supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eye-
witness account of what happened on the roof of the world
is a singular achievement.
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