Everest in the early afternoon of may 10, 1996, he hadnt slept in fiftyseven hours and was reeling from the brainaltering effects of oxygen depletion. Despite the expertise of hall and the other leaders, by the end of summit day eight people were dead. On 10 may 1996, four groups of climbers set out to summit mount everest. Jon krakauers into thin air is the true story of a 24hour period on everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricaneforce winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst.
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