Krakauer, Jon <br/><br/>
Into thin air :  a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster / 
Jon Krakauer. 
 - xxii,293 pages,8 unnumbered pagespages of plates :  illustrations (some colour), portraits ;  20 cm 
<br/><br/> Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1997. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (page 293). 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0330353977 9780330353977 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Krakauer, Jon
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>Mount Everest Expedition (1996) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mountaineering accidents--Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)<br/>Mountaineering accidents
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796.522092