Pithy Books: disaster https://pithybooks.com/tags/disaster/ Latest Pithy Books summaries tagged “disaster”. en Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:12:11 GMT Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer: summary https://pithybooks.com/books/into-thin-air/ https://pithybooks.com/books/into-thin-air/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Krakauer's account of the 1996 Everest disaster: a guided summit push, a sudden storm, and the choices that left eight dead above 26,000 feet.