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15 lip 2021 · Language. English. Item Size. 209.9M. By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas.
INTO TH IN AIR “ A book th a t o er s r ea der s th e em oti on a l i m m edi a c y of a s u r v i v or ’ s tes ta m en t a s w ell a s th e pr ec i s i on , deta i l, a n d qu es t f or a c c u r a c y of a g r ea t pi ec e of jou r n a li s m .… I t i s i m pos s i ble to r ea d th i s book u n m ov ed.”
Situated at the entrance to a magnificent natural amphitheatre formed by Everest and its two sisters, Lhotse and Nuptse, was a small city of tents sheltering 240 climbers and Sherpas from 14 expeditions, all of it sprawled across a bend in the Khumbu Glacier.
13 lip 2024 · When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still ...
INTO THIN AIR. by Jon Krakauer . For Linda; and in memory of Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, Rob Hall, Yasuko Namba, Scott Fischer, Ngawang Topche Sherpa, Chen Yu-Nan, Bruce Herrod, and Lopsang jangbu Sherpa . Introduction . In March 1996, Outside magazine sent me to Nepal to participate in, and write about, a
Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed Outside journalist and author of the bestselling Into the Wild. Taking the reader step by step from Katmandu to the mountain's deadly pinnacle, Krakauer has his readers shaking on the edge of their seat.
12 lis 1998 · Into Thin Air. Jon Krakauer. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 12, 1998 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages. #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of...
