The story then starts from the beginning with an account of the history of human exploration of Mt. While he survives, the storm would eventually claim the lives of 8 climbers, with 4 more climbers dying in unrelated events that same season. As he begins the painstaking descent back down the mountain, a storm forms and quickly worsens while many of his climbing teammates are still high on the summit. Everest, too exhausted and delirious to care about his accomplishment.
The story opens with Krakauer on the summit of Mt. Jon Krakauer, a writer and amateur climber, is a client on the Adventure Consultants climbing expedition he serves as the book's narrator. Everest, which at that point was the deadliest climbing season in the history of the mountain. Into Thin Air is the nonfiction account of the tragic events of the spring of 1996 on Mt.
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