{"id":6458,"date":"2026-01-05T23:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mount-everest-diaster-krakauer-jon\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:52:54","slug":"into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mount-everest-diaster-krakauer-jon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/into-thin-air-a-personal-account-of-the-mount-everest-diaster-krakauer-jon\/","title":{"rendered":"Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Diaster – Krakauer, Jon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Praise for Jon Krakauer\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/span>
INTO THIN AIR<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA book that offers readers the emotional immediacy of a survivor\u2019s testament as well as the precision, detail, and quest for accuracy of a great piece of journalism.\u2026 It is impossible to read this book unmoved.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cBrilliant, haunting.\u2026 This is an angry book, made even more so by the fact that hardly anyone seems to have learned a thing from the tragedy.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEvery bit as absorbing and unnerving as his bestseller, <\/span>Into the Wild<\/span><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014THE NEW YORK TIMES<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA searing book.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014OUTSIDE<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cKrakauer is an extremely gifted storyteller as well as a relentlessly honest and even-handed journalist, the story is riveting and wonderfully complex in its own right, and Krakauer makes one excellent decision after another about how to tell it.\u2026 To call the book an adventure saga seems not to recognize that it is also a deeply thoughtful and finely wrought philosophical examination of the self.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014ELLE<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cKrakauer introduces the many players until they feel familiar, then leads the reader with them up the mountain and into the so-called \u2018Death Zone\u2019 above 25,000 feet.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cTime collapses as, minute-by-minute, Krakauer rivetingly and movingly chronicles what ensued, much of which is near agony to read.\u2026 A brilliantly told story.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014KIRKUS REVIEWS<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c[Krakauer] proves as sure-footed in prose as he was on the mountain\u00a0\u2026\u00a0quietly building the suspense as we follow the ill-fated expedition through its preparation and shakedown forays, and then delivering a lucid, blow-by-blow account of the cataclysmic storm and the death and agony following in its wake.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014THE NEW YORK OBSERVER<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c<\/span>Into Thin Air<\/span><\/span> reads like a fine novel\u2014the main characters breathe their way through a plot so commanding, the book is hard to put down.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014AMAZON REVIEWS<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMake room on your shelf for mountaineering classics.\u2026 Krakauer\u2019s grip on your emotions will leave you gasping for breath.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014LOS ANGELES TIMES<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c[A] riveting account of events leading to the death of guides Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, assistant Andy Harris and two clients.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014BOSTON HERALD<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c[A] gripping analysis of the tragedy.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014THE TENNESSEAN<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c<\/span>Into Thin Air<\/span><\/span> is the\u00a0\u2026\u00a0intense, taut, driving account of what happened. It is an engrossing book, difficult for the reader to put down\u00a0\u2026\u00a0superbly reported.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cAstounding\u00a0\u2026\u00a0honest\u00a0\u2026\u00a0eloquent.\u2026 Through objective and thorough research and in sparkling prose, Krakauer tells a story that arouses fury, disgust, admiration and tears.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014THE TIMES-PICAYUNE (NEW ORLEANS)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMeticulously researched and exceptionally well-written, <\/span>Into Thin Air<\/span><\/span> avoids the hype and easy condemnation that have infested other accounts. The book offers instead vivid details told matter-of-factly, almost quietly. The result is a deeply moving narrative that honors the courage of the people on the mountain while raising profound and possibly unanswerable questions about human behavior in a crisis.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014NASHVILLE BOOK PAGE<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cJon Krakauer offers fresh insights into the tragedy in his superb <\/span>Into Thin Air<\/span><\/span>, in which he adroitly sifts through the misunderstandings, miscalculations and misguided zeal that led his fellow climbers to their doom. His new book is, on every level, a worthy successor to his outstanding <\/span>Into the Wild<\/span><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014THE PLAIN DEALER<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA taut, harrowing narrative of the most lethal season in Everest\u2019s history\u00a0\u2026\u00a0Krakauer offers a disturbing look at how technology, publicity, and commercialism have changed mountaineering.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014WISCONSIN STATE-JOURNAL<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cJust as he did in his previous book, the acclaimed <\/span>Into the Wild<\/span><\/span>, Krakauer employs exhaustive reporting, attention to detail, and a crisp, unpretentious writing style to shape the story.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014HARTFORD COURANT<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe intensity of the tragedy is haunting, and Krakauer\u2019s graphic writing drives it home.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014PUBLISHERS WEEKLY<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c[Krakauer] has produced a narrative that is both meticulously researched and deftly constructed.\u2026 His story rushes irresistibly forward.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThough it comes from the genre named for what it isn\u2019t (nonfiction), this has the feel of literature: Krakauer <\/span>is<\/span><\/span> Ishmael, the narrator who lives to tell the story but is forever trapped within it.\u2026 Krakauer\u2019s reporting is steady but ferocious. The clink of ice in a glass, a poem of winter snow, will never sound the same.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014MIRABELLA<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEvery once in a while a work of nonfiction comes along that\u2019s as good as anything a novelist could make up\u00a0\u2026\u00a0<\/span>Into Thin Air<\/span><\/span> fits the bill.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014FORBES<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDeeply upsetting, genuinely nightmarish.\u2026 Krakauer writes indelibly.\u2026 He\u2019s brilliant.\u2026 His story contains what must be one of the essences of hell: the unceasing potential for things to become worse than you fear.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014SALON<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201c<\/span>Into Thin Air<\/span><\/span> is a remarkable work of reportage and self-examination.\u2026 And no book on the 1996 disaster is likely to consider so honestly the mistakes that killed his colleagues.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014NEWSDAY<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cJon Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport, while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014ACADEMY AWARD IN LITERATURE<\/span>
CITIATION FROM THE AMERICAN<\/span>
ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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