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Into Thin Air

by Jon Krakauer

  • FINISHED
  • Finished March 2018
  • First published 1997

narrative nonfiction memoir

Krakauer’s first-hand account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers died in one storm.   He examines the commercial guiding industry and the choices that led to the deaths.

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