Entering the Thin Air Zone – A Personal Account of the Tragedy on Mount Everest

Author: (American) Jon Krakauer, translated by Han Jing
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Publishing Date: 1999-10-01
Features: This book is an authoritative account by Jon Krakauer, a renowned American journalist and the author of the bestseller Into Thin Air, of the climbing season with the most casualties in the history of Mount Everest. People take on roles in tragedy because they do not believe in tragedies existing in real life, but tragedies did indeed occur in the civilized world. This book is an authoritative account by Jon Krakauer, a renowned American journalist and the author of the bestseller Into Thin Air, of the climbing season with the most casualties in the history of Mount Everest. To complete a report for Outside magazine on the increasing commercialization of Everest, the outstanding climber Krakauer traveled to the Himalayas as a client of Rob Hall, one of the world's top high-altitude guides. The slim 35-year-old New Zealander Hall climbed Mount Everest four times between 1990 and 1995. Scott Fisher, a 40-year-old American, led a climbing team that joined Hall's group. Scott possessed legendary strength and spirit, and in 1994, he summited without the aid of oxygen tanks. However, neither Hall nor Fisher survived the deceptive blizzard of May 1996.