Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Everest Disaster
Автор:Jon Krakauer Год: 2011 Издание:Pan Books, Macmillan Publishers Limited Страниц: 360 ISBN: 9781447200185 In May 1996, Jon Krakauer was on one of three expeditions near the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm hit, and by the end of the day eight people were dead. Into Thin Air tells the story of that ill-fated adventure. In it Krakauer brilliantly evokes the majestic Everest landscape and places his own experiences within the history of man's attempt to conquer the world's highest mountain. Into Thin Air is a landmark of mountaineering literature, and a harrowing tale of human tragedy and endurance.
