The book of the famous American journalist, writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer “Into Thin Air” was written hot on the heels of the tragedy that took place during the Everest expedition in May 1996... “There was a mountain - the goddess of peace.” The Tibetans called it Chomolungma, the Nepalese - Sagarmatha. The Europeans gave her a male name - in honor of the English topographer Sir George Everest. Everest was conquered. But was Sagarmatha-Chomolungma conquered? What does a person experience when standing on the Roof of the World - delight and rapture or endless fatigue, fear and the desire to descend as quickly as possible? What does a romantic and thrill-seeker want to find and what does he find when he pays $65,000 for the opportunity to stand for five minutes on the highest point on the planet? How, to whom and for what does the mountain take revenge? The author of the book tries to find answers to these and many other questions, whom, perhaps, the “Goddess of the World” spared so that, having descended, he could not only present a piercingly harsh personal report on the expedition , but also to give a voluminous and truthful picture of the Everest epic as a whole.