This is the terrifying story of what really happened in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996 at the top of the world, during what would be the deadliest season in the history of Everest. In this harrowing yet breathtaking narrative, Krakauer takes the reader along with his ill-fated expedition, step by precarious step, from Katmandu to the mountain’s pinnacle where plagued by a combination of hubris, greed, poor judgement, and plain bad luck, they would fall prey to the mountain’s unpredictable fury.