... - for better or for worse, depending on your viewpoint. In his story of the ill-fated expeditions that attempted to climb Everest in the spring of 1996, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer writes of the primitive conditions he and his team faced in the small hamlet of Lobuje, one of the waypoints they rested at before making the push to Everest ... ...

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