Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Kathryn Serrano Chloe has always dreamed of

Chloe has always dreamed of becoming a bestselling writer

Sy Montgomery—whose The Soul of an Octopus was a National Book Award finalist—has kept a flock of chickens in her backyard

long accustomed to living in her sister’s shadow

And when he's not recovering from a ferocious tiger attack

vowing never to return

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Kathryn Serrano Chloe has always dreamed ofA bank of clouds was assembling on the not so distant horizon, but journalist mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people