Band 111
Into Thin Air
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Into Thin Air
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ePUB 3
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Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
12.11.1998
Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
320 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
3251 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780679462712
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more-including Krakauer's-in guilt-ridden disarray.
"A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism."-People
A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years
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.
In Into Thin Air, Krakauer 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. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. 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.
This updated trade paperback edition includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy. As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory. In a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points.
"A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism."-People
A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years
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.
In Into Thin Air, Krakauer 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. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. 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.
This updated trade paperback edition includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy. As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory. In a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points.
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My utmost respect to all Sherpa mountain guides out there
I rarely dabble in non-fiction, but when I do, I often get surprised at how good some of the books in this genre are. ''Into Thin Air'' is no exception. The story that is told within these pages is sometimes as thrilling as it is scary, it almost feels like a fictional body of work that one day just arose from Jon Krakauer's mind. Alas, it is not, and so the element of real, tangible tragedy carries through the entirety of the book. ''Into Thin Air'' details the ill-fated Mount Everest Expedition of 1996, one of the deadliest seasons in the history of mountaineering. Jon Krakauer, who himself was there and miraculously survived, tells the full, unfiltered story and does not shy away from revealing the circumstances around the deaths of some his teammates. Throughout this book you will question why people risk their lives trying to tame the nearly untamable, and by the end of it you will have an answer. ''Into Thin Air'' reads like a cautionary tale about hubris, it is gripping and captivating and absolutely worth your time.
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