In 1996, on a magazine assignment, Krakauer joined an expedition up Mount Everest led by the New Zealand climber Rob Hall. He arrived at the summit just before a blizzard struck in which Hall and nine other climbers were killed. This book is Krakauer's first-person account of the tragedy.
- Genre: Biography + Autobiography, Sports + Recreation
- Subgenre: Sports, Mountaineering
- Publisher: Villard Books
- Pages: 291
- Language: English
- Format: hardcover
- Release Date: May 1, 1997
- Date Published: May 1, 1997
- Author: Jon Krakauer