Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster / Jon Krakauer.
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TextPublisher: London : Pan, 1998Copyright date: ©1997Description: xxii,293 pages,8 unnumbered pagespages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0330353977
- 9780330353977
- 796.522092 21
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| Book | North Campus North Campus Main Collection | 796.522092 KRA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A297503B |
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Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (page 293).
The author describes his spring 1996 trek to Mt. Everest, a disastrous expedition that claimed the lives of eight climbers, and explains why he survived.
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