Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster inspiring such artistic and philosophical

inspiring such artistic and philosophical luminaries as Edvard Munch

which received the PEN Translation Prize and was an Oprah Book Club(TM) selection

His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo

is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them and

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster inspiring such artistic and philosophical#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more including Krakauer's in guilt ridden disarray. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." People A Los Angeles Times Best Nonfiction Book of the Last 30 Years A bank of clouds was assembling on the not so distant horizon, but journalist