The English Book Club: Into Thin Air

In Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer describes in haunting, gruelling and deeply moving prose his personal account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which claimed the lives of eight people. As Krakauer revisits the events of this fateful climb, we are reminded not only of the risks of mountaineering, but also of the survivor’s guilt that plagues those who made it down the world’s highest mountain.

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