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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Just finished a depressing and sad non-fiction book this afternoon.
"Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer. An account of a disastrous Mt. Everest climb in May 1996 when 8 people died during a summit attempt, including the leaders of the two of the competing expeditions.
A series of mistakes, too many climbers on the mountain, an unexpected storm that trapped many of the climbers ended being disastrous for a number of people extremely high (Death Zone) on the mountain. I already knew what the ending was and it was painful to work to the end.
I end up getting this book because of comments on an article about the number of corpses left on Everest. |
Loved that book. I just read "Dark Summit" by Nick Heil which also talks about problems on Everest, except this time the weather was good and almost as many people died.
I felt bad for Rob Hall's wife the most. Still chokes me up.