Everest, Revised and Updated : Mountain Without Mercy

The May 1996 climbing season on Mount Everest will go down in infamy. Its story has been recounted in David Breashears's gripping IMAX film and Jon Krakauer's bestseller Into Thin Air. This compelling companion book, now revised and updated with brilliant new panoramic photography, tells the unforgettable story from a unique perspective.

Written in suspenseful detail, the book documents how a courageous photographic team, facing hazards of their own, became an essential part of a rescue effort that brought some—but not all—of their companions down from the mountain alive.

This updated edition adds fascinating new material to the classic main text: brief portraits of those who lived through the tragedy, a timeline of subsequent climbing events on Everest up to 2014, and never-before-published detailed panoramic photographs of Everest and the Himalaya. A gripping account of heroism, tragedy, and survival on the world's highest peak.