Into Thin Air, Paperback

A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer jon krakauer, standing on the summit of mt. Everest, saw nothing that suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." he was wrong. The storm, which claimed five lives and left countless more--including krakauer's--in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provide the impetus for into thin air, krakauer's epic account of the may 1996 disaster. Author: jon krakauer.