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Into Thin Air by Krakauer, Jon is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Into Thin Air about?
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. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. \In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself.
Who reads Into Thin Air?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Krakauer, Jon
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 1998
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Biography, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (31 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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