Into Thin Air
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Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, detailing the deadly expedition he joined and the broader risks and ethics of high-altitude climbing.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Into Thin Air canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television film ⓘ |
| author | Jon Krakauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded |
Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize
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Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Time magazine Best Book of the Year (nonfiction) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Jon Krakauer’s experience on 1996 Everest expedition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| describesEvent |
blizzard on Mount Everest in May 1996
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deaths of climbers during 1996 Everest season ⓘ |
| expandedFrom | “Into Thin Air” article in Outside magazine ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization |
Adventure Consultants
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Mountain Madness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresPerson |
Anatoli Boukreev
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Doug Hansen NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ Yasuko Namba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Into the Wild (in Krakauer’s major nonfiction works) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure literature
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mountaineering literature ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Into Thin Air: Death on Everest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-679-45752-6 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jon Krakauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy over portrayal of Anatoli Boukreev
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detailed account of 1996 Everest disaster ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 300 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Anchor Books
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Villard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sales | bestseller in the United States ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Mount Everest
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Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | May 1996 ⓘ |
| subject |
1996 Mount Everest disaster
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Mount Everest NERFINISHED ⓘ high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ mountaineering ethics ⓘ |
| theme |
commercialization of Everest
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decision-making under stress ⓘ ethics of guided expeditions ⓘ risk in extreme sports ⓘ survivor guilt ⓘ |
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