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Into Thin Air |
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John Krakauer |
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This is the horrifying true story of the consequences when man believes he has conquered nature. Painstakingly, Krakauer takes the reader through each of the lives of the men and women who prepared to summit Everest that day, and what happened to him or her. As a participant and a survivor, his intimate knowledge of those who perished adds an omniscient quality to the book, allowing the reader to decide whose fault the deaths were. Bad luck, bad feelings between guides, and bad weather were all a part of the equation that took 19 lives that day in 1996, and only John Krakauer has the ability and the will to tell the story as it should be told. The reader is entranced by the tale, yet frightened to read what happened to 19 souls in pursuit of the greatest feat imaginable. Non-fiction
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