Into Thin Air
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Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, detailing the deadly expedition he joined and the broader risks and ethics of high-altitude climbing.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Into Thin Air canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Into Thin Air Context triple: [Everest (2015 film), basedOn, Into Thin Air]
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A.
Into Thin Air
"Into Thin Air" is a song titled after Jon Krakauer’s famous Everest disaster book, likely evoking themes of danger, loss, or disappearance.
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B.
Touching the Void
Touching the Void is a British docudrama film that recounts the harrowing true story of two climbers’ near-fatal ascent of the Peruvian Andes.
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C.
Everest the Hard Way
Everest the Hard Way is a mountaineering book by British climber Chris Bonington that chronicles the 1975 British expedition’s pioneering ascent of Everest’s formidable Southwest Face.
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D.
Americans on Everest
Americans on Everest is a nonfiction account of the first successful American expedition to climb Mount Everest, written by mountaineering author James Ramsey Ullman.
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E.
Camp 2
Camp 2 is a high-altitude staging camp on Denali’s West Buttress route, used by climbers as a key acclimatization and logistics point during their ascent.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Into Thin Air Target entity description: Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, detailing the deadly expedition he joined and the broader risks and ethics of high-altitude climbing.
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A.
Into Thin Air
"Into Thin Air" is a song titled after Jon Krakauer’s famous Everest disaster book, likely evoking themes of danger, loss, or disappearance.
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B.
Touching the Void
Touching the Void is a British docudrama film that recounts the harrowing true story of two climbers’ near-fatal ascent of the Peruvian Andes.
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C.
Everest the Hard Way
Everest the Hard Way is a mountaineering book by British climber Chris Bonington that chronicles the 1975 British expedition’s pioneering ascent of Everest’s formidable Southwest Face.
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D.
Americans on Everest
Americans on Everest is a nonfiction account of the first successful American expedition to climb Mount Everest, written by mountaineering author James Ramsey Ullman.
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E.
Camp 2
Camp 2 is a high-altitude staging camp on Denali’s West Buttress route, used by climbers as a key acclimatization and logistics point during their ascent.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | nonfiction book ⓘ |
| adaptationType | television film ⓘ |
| author | Jon Krakauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awarded |
Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize
NERFINISHED
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Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ Time magazine Best Book of the Year (nonfiction) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Jon Krakauer’s experience on 1996 Everest expedition ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticalReception | generally positive ⓘ |
| describesEvent |
blizzard on Mount Everest in May 1996
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deaths of climbers during 1996 Everest season ⓘ |
| expandedFrom | “Into Thin Air” article in Outside magazine ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization |
Adventure Consultants
NERFINISHED
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Mountain Madness NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| featuresPerson |
Anatoli Boukreev
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Doug Hansen NERFINISHED ⓘ Rob Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ Scott Fischer NERFINISHED ⓘ Yasuko Namba NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Into the Wild (in Krakauer’s major nonfiction works) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
adventure literature
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mountaineering literature ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Into Thin Air: Death on Everest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isbn | 0-679-45752-6 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Jon Krakauer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mediaType | print ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversy over portrayal of Anatoli Boukreev
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detailed account of 1996 Everest disaster ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 300 ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1997 ⓘ |
| publisher |
Anchor Books
NERFINISHED
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Villard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sales | bestseller in the United States ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Mount Everest
NERFINISHED
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Nepal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| settingTime | May 1996 ⓘ |
| subject |
1996 Mount Everest disaster
NERFINISHED
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Mount Everest NERFINISHED ⓘ high-altitude mountaineering ⓘ mountaineering ethics ⓘ |
| theme |
commercialization of Everest
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decision-making under stress ⓘ ethics of guided expeditions ⓘ risk in extreme sports ⓘ survivor guilt ⓘ |
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