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** Book ** **Title**: Into Thin Air ** Author ** : Jon Krakauer

=== "Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet. I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of earth beneath my feet was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care." ===

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a [|bestselling] [|non-fiction] book written by [|Jon Krakauer]. [|[1]] It details the author's May 10, 1996 ascent of [|Mount Everest], which turned [|catastrophic] when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a 'rogue storm'. The author's expedition was led by the famed guide [|Rob Hall], and there were other groups trying to summit on the same day, including one led by [|Scott Fischer] , whose guiding agency, Mountain Madness, was perceived as a competitor to Rob Hall's agency, Adventure Consultants. [|[2]][|[3]] The book was adapted into a [|1997] TV movie named Into Thin Air: Death on Everest starring [|Peter Horton] as Scott Fischer and [|Christopher McDonald] as Jon Krakauer. The book and the film both contain the same strong editorial viewpoint regarding the fundamental causes of the tragedy, although the film differs sharply from the book in details regarding responsibility. courtesy of wikipedia.