Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

368 pages first pub 1997 (view editions)

nonfiction memoir sports travel adventurous sad tense medium-paced
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A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. The storm, which cla...

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Community Reviews

4.23
based on 33,156 reviews

Moods

adventurous: 89%

tense: 61%

sad: 56%

emotional: 52%

informative: 52%

dark: 41%

reflective: 38%

challenging: 35%

inspiring: 13%

hopeful: 2%

mysterious: 2%


Pace

30% of readers chose fast
59% of readers chose medium
9% of readers chose slow
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