Into Thin Air: Death on Everest

• 5.516 Adventure
• 1997-11-09
• 90 minutes mins

An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". This movie attempts to re-create the disastrous events that took place during the Mount Everest climb on May 10, 1996. It also follows Jon Krakauer throughout the movie, and portrays what he was going through while climbing this mountain.

Starring:

Peter Horton (Scott Fischer) Nathaniel Parker (Rob Hall) Richard Jenkins (Beck Weathers) Christopher McDonald (Jon Krakauer) Tim Dutton (Andy Harris) Pamela Gien (Sandy Hill Pittman) Peter J. Lucas (Anatoli Boukreev) Long Nguyen (Ang Dorje) Jeff Perry (Doug Hansen) Ned Vaughn (Neal Beidelman)

Director:

Robert Markowitz

Writer:

Robert J. Avrech