I agree with this suggestion also.
One of my hobbies is reading about mountaineering on Everest, and this is an excellent book, regardless of the qualification for it to be about people who are lost.
There is alot of Everest literature out there - I know because I have shelves and shelves of it (plus about 5 - 6 DVDs). But this was the first (and arguably the best) book about Everest '96 - one of the deadliest years on that mountain.
Roger Wilco, just so you know, however, there are several other books about Everest '96 that you might be interested in if you liked Into Thin Air.
David Brashears (you might remember him as the guy running the IMAX expedition) wrote a book called High Exposure, which is about his experiences on Everest in general, but has a large section, of course, about Everest '96, telling the story from his perspective when his team was lower on the mountain to when he had his team abandon the IMAX expedition in order to participate in the rescue efforts going on up at Camps III and IV.
Anatoli Boukreev (you might remember him as Scott Fischer's head guide - the one Jon criticized for climbing without oxygen while guiding and going down way ahead of his team) also wrote a book, which was basically a rebuttal to Into Thin Air. Boukreev died the the next year in an avalanche on Annapurna so he is not around anymore to continue that little war of words with Jon...but The Climb (Boukreev's book) is an interesting (if a bit self-serving) read nonetheless.
Ed Viesturs (who was also on the mountain as part of David Brashears IMAX team and who is known as one of the best and safest climbers in the world - he was the 12th person in history (and only American) to achieve all 14 summits over 8,000 meters) has put out a couple of books, I think - and I remember at least one of them spending a fair amount of time on Everest '96.
A few of the clients who were in that group stuck out on the South Col wrote books too - although they are, frankly, of lesser importance. You could spend all summer reading about that disaster, though, if you wanted to.
