Into Thin Air  -  Jon Krakauer

A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

KORTE INHOUD

When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10,1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds...

Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Eve...
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1998 1x BEKROOND Uitgever: Anchor Books 378 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0385492081 ISBN-13: 9780385492089