Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

333 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction memoir sports travel adventurous medium-paced
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National Bestseller 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. T...

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adventurous 89%
tense 61%
sad 56%
informative 53%
emotional 50%
dark 40%
reflective 39%
challenging 33%
inspiring 13%
hopeful 2%
mysterious 2%

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fast 30%
slow 9%

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