Everest (2015) Movie poster and book cover compared.

Everest

Baltasar Kormákur, 2015

VS3

Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer, 1997

Everest is a movie directed by Baltasar Kormákur in 2015 and based on the book Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer, first published in 1997. The movie features Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Elizabeth Debicki, Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington, and others.

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RATING

7.1

/ 10

Movie Poster: Everest (Baltasar Kormákur, 2015)

8.3

/ 10

Book Cover: Into Thin Air (Jon Krakauer, 1997)

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AUDIOBOOK

Audiobook cover of Into Thin Air, the 1997 book by Jon Krakauer.

Into Thin Air

Read by: Philip Franklin

Storyline

In May 1996, several commercial expeditions at the base camp of Mount Everest prepare to climb to the summit. Rob Hall, who popularized commercial Everest missions, leads Adventure Consultants; Scott Fischer is the chief guide for its rival, Mountain Madness. A month earlier in New Zealand, Rob says goodbye to his pregnant wife, Jan, and promises that he will be home for the birth.

Movie vs Book

Poster of Everest, the 2015 movie by Baltasar Kormákur

Year

2015

Minutes

121

Movie Rate

7.10

Source: IMDb

Cover of Into Thin Air, the 1997 book by Jon Krakauer

Year

1997

Pages

368

Book Rate

8.36

S: Goodreads

Book

Into Thin Air

Subtitle: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Country: USA

First published in: 1997

Length: 368 pages

Genre: Biography

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