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Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster (Record no. 29873)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field ocm36130642
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field OCoLC
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20170125184820.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 961216s1997 nyua b 000 0 eng
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 96030031
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0679457526 (alk. paper)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency XY4
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Geographic area code a-cc---
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050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number GV199.44.E85
Item number K725 1997
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 796.52/2/092
Edition number 21
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krakauer, Jon.
9 (RLIN) 42089
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Villard,
Date of publication, distribution, etc c1997.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx, 293 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Map on lining papers.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. 293).
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A history of Mount Everest expedition is intertwined with the disastrous expedition the author was a part of, during which five members were killed by a hurricane-strength blizzard. When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty-seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028 feet, twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly toward the top. No one had noticed that the sky had begun to fill with clouds. Six hours later and 3,000 feet lower, in 70-knot winds and blinding snow, Krakauer collapsed in his tent, freezing, hallucinating from exhaustion and hypoxia, but safe. The following morning he learned that six of his fellow climbers hadn't made it back to their camp and were in a desperate struggle for their lives. When the storm finally passed, five of them would be dead, and the sixth so horribly frostbitten that his right hand would have to be amputated. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people - including himself - to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's eye-witness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Krakauer, Jon.
9 (RLIN) 42090
610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Adventure Consultants.
Subordinate unit Guided Expedition
Date of meeting or treaty signing (1996 :
Location of meeting Mount Everest)
9 (RLIN) 42091
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Mountain Madness (Firm).
Subordinate unit Everest Expedition
Date of meeting or treaty signing (1996)
9 (RLIN) 42092
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mountaineering accidents
Geographic subdivision Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mountaineering expeditions
Geographic subdivision Everest, Mount (China and Nepal)
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942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type NF
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Lost status Collection code Current library Shelving location Full call number Barcode Number Koha item type
  Nonfiction Chamberlin Free Public Library Nonfiction 796.5 KRA 34517000109200 NF