Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer with Philip Franklin (Narrator)

9 hours, 8 minutes first pub 1997 (editions) user-added

nonfiction memoir sports travel adventurous medium-paced
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Journalist 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 claimed five lives and left countless more in guilt-ridden disarray, would also provid...

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adventurous 89%
tense 61%
sad 56%
informative 52%
emotional 50%
dark 41%
reflective 39%
challenging 34%
inspiring 13%
hopeful 2%
mysterious 2%

Pace

medium 59%
fast 30%
slow 10%

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