[colourgarden]

The title relates to Into Thin Air which Jon Krakauer also wrote about the 1996 Everest disaster (of which he was part).

[benatkin]

Ahhhhhhhh. That's what my brain was remembering.

[OJFord]

Does it otherwise reference that at all? Google Ngrams has the phrase `_VERB_ into thin air` going back to 1599.