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adv. (context idiomatic English) immediately and inexplicably out of sight.
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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster is a 1997 bestselling non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details the author's presence at Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, when eight climbers were killed and several others were stranded by a "rogue storm". The author's expedition was led by the famed guide Rob Hall, and there were other groups trying to summit on the same day, including one led by Scott Fischer, whose guiding agency, Mountain Madness, was perceived as a competitor to Rob Hall's agency, Adventure Consultants.
Into Thin Air (Traditional Chinese: 人間蒸發) is a TVB modern drama series broadcast in September 2005.
Into Thin Air is a 1997 book by Jon Krakauer.
Into Thin Air may also refer to:
- Into Thin Air: Death on Everest, a 1997 American TV movie based on Krakauer's book
- Into Thin Air (TV series), a 2005 Hong Kong drama series
- "Into Thin Air" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents), an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents
- "Into Thin Air", an episode of Astro Boy
- Into Thin Air, a novel by Caroline Leavitt
- Into Thin Air, a 2004 collected edition of the comics series The Pulse
- Into Thin Air, a mystery novel by Thomas Zigal
Usage examples of "into thin air".
Unfortunately, it leads immediately to another question: these alleged defenders of hers seem to have vanished, djinn-like, into thin air.
The victim, gunned down under such baffling circumstances, vanished into thin air.
I had been about to suggest that we seek entrance to the city, but now I scarce know if I care to venture among people whose dead vanish into thin air.
So well had the abduction been planned that the girl seemed literally to have vanished into thin air.
Why not permit them simply to dissolve into thin air until you again require their futile service?
Now and then, perchance, comes in a seer, before whose sadly gifted eye the whole structure melts into thin air, leaving only the hidden nook, the bolted closet, with the cobwebs festooned over its forgotten door, or the deadly hole under the pavement, and the decaying corpse within.
After the experiences with the masked Elves, I'm half expecting him to vanish into thin air.
Chomir felt approximately as a human being might have felt after an encounter with a menacing phantom which faded into thin air almost as soon as it was noticed.