@article{292676,
      recid = {292676},
      author = {Krakauer, Jon.},
      title = {Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest  disaster /},
      publisher = {Villard,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xx, 293 p. :},
      year = {1997},
      note = {Map on lining papers.},
      abstract = {A history of Mount Everest expedition is intertwined with  the disastrous expedition the author was a part of, during  which five members were killed by a hurricane-strength  blizzard. 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 his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty  other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top.  No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with  clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot  winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent,  freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but  safe. The following morning he learned that six of his  fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were  in a desperate struggle for their lives. When the storm  finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth  so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to  be amputated. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest  that has compelled so many people - including himself - to  throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved  ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk,  hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and  supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's  eye-witness account of what happened on the roof of the  world is a singular achievement.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/292676},
}