I don’t know about you guys, but I love a good natural disaster story. There’s some sort of morbid fascination that comes from watching a horror movie or reading a horror book, especially when it happens to be true. Because at its core, that’s what Into Thin Air is - a horror story. Beautifully written, Krakauer tells his personal account of the events that occurred during the 1996 climbing season, one of the most deadly in history.