Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster

Titre
Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster

Jon. Krakauer

Sommaire
The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

Date de publication comme intervalle
1999
 
1999,
 
1997

Description matérielle
xxv, 333 p. : ill., map ; 20 cm.

Edition
1st Anchor Books trade pbk. ed.

Note générale
Originally published: New York : Villard, c1997.

Vedette-matière - nom de personne
Krakauer, Jon.

Sujet de conférence
Mount Everest Expedition (1996)

Terme de vedette-matière
Mountaineering accidents -- Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
 
Mountaineering accidents.

Terme géographique
Mount Everest (China and Nepal)

Vedette secondaire - titre
Mountaineering expeditions

Résumé
The author relates his experience of climbing Mount Everest during its deadliest season and examines what it is about the mountain that makes people willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.

Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN)
9780385494786
 
9780329449254
 
9780329603748

Informations de publication
New York : Anchor Books, 1999.


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