Facts about Into Thin Air

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   Rob Hall, the New Zealand mountaineer and guide whose death during the 1996 Everest expedition is detailed in Into Thin Air, was the first person to summit Everest from both the north and south sides.

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   Krakauer's climb was sponsored by Outside magazine, which assigned him to document the 1996 Everest expedition as a paying client rather than as a journalist observer.

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3. 03

   Krakauer's detailed account reveals that Beck Weathers, a climber who survived the 1996 disaster despite severe frostbite, had his hands and nose amputated after descending Mount Everest in Into Thin Air.

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   Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air sold over 4 million copies worldwide and spent 122 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list following its 1997 publication.

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   During the 1996 Mount Everest disaster chronicled in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, eight climbers died on May 10-11, making it the deadliest single day in the mountain's history at that time.

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