Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

Author:Jon Krakauer
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mountains, Mount (China and Nepal), Mountaineering accidents, 1996, Travel, Nature, Essays & Travelogues, Sports & Recreation, Everest, Mount Everest Expedition, Mountaineering, Mountaineering expeditions, Ecosystems & Habitats, Biography & Autobiography, General
ISBN: 9780307475251
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2009-08-25T06:10:07.600917+00:00

* Bromet had left Base Camp in mid-April and returned to Seattle, whence she continued to file Internet dispatches about Fischer’s expedition for Outside Online; she relied on regular phone updates from Fischer as the primary source for her reports.

TWELVE

CAMP THREE

MAY 9, 1996 • 24,000 FEET

I looked down. Descent was totally unappetizing.… Too much labor, too many sleepless nights, and too many dreams had been invested to bring us this far. We couldn’t come back for another try next weekend. To go down now, even if we could have, would be descending to a future marked by one huge question: what might have been?

Thomas F. Hornbein

Everest: The West Ridge

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