by Jon Krakauer · Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422681540
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«Mal de altura» is Jon Krakauer's chronicle of the Everest tragedy, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (350 pages, in Spanish).
Jon Krakauer recounts in the first person the 1996 Everest expedition in which he took part as a journalist. The day, marked by risky decisions and extreme conditions, ended in tragedy for several climbers. The author reconstructs the events, the mistakes made, and the struggle to survive in a relentless environment.
Translation by Luis Murillo Fort of the English original 'Into Thin Air' (1997). Winner of the ALA Alex Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Edition with illustrated dust jacket.
Recommended for readers of mountaineering chronicles, true survival stories, and first-person accounts of the conquest of Everest.
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air.
