Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.

KRAKAUER, Jon.

Item Number: 131593

New York: Villard, 1997.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth, cartographic endpapers by Anita Karl, illustrations by Randy Rackliff. Signed by Jon Krakauer on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Daniel Rembert.

"This is a great book, among the best ever on mountaineering. Gracefully and efficiently written, carefully researched, and actually lived by its narrator, it shares a similar theme with another sort of book, a novel called "The Great Gatsby" (The Washington Post).