Into Thin Air

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Into Thin Air Playlist

by Jon Krakauer

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 19, 2026

This playlist follows Krakauer’s climb from the stark discipline of the ascent to the summit’s fragile exhilaration, then into the storm, exhaustion, and grief of the descent. Spacious instrumental soundscapes evoke Everest’s altitude and exposure; the vocal selections turn toward ambition, risk, loyalty, survival, and the cost of pressing onward.

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Track List

20 songs

1

The Gravel Road (from "The Village")

James Newton Howard · Imitation Games Vol.4

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2

Elegy For The Arctic

Ludovico Einaudi · 12 Songs From Home

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3

The Departure

Max Richter · The Leftovers: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series)

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4

The Imitation Game

Alexandre Desplat · The Imitation Game (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

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5

First Breath After Coma

Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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6

A Walk

Tycho · Dive

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7

An Ending (Ascent)

Brian Eno · Ascent

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8

On the Nature of Daylight

Max Richter · The Blue Notebooks (15 Years)

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9

The Mighty Rio Grande

This Will Destroy You · S/T

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10

Poa Alpina

Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

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11

The Blue Hour

Federico Albanese · The Blue Hour

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12

An Ending, A Beginning

Dustin O'Halloran · Other Lights

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13

The Climb

Miley Cyrus · The Time Of Our Lives (International Version)

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14

Mountain Sound

Of Monsters and Men · My Head Is An Animal

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15

The Cave

Mumford & Sons · Sigh No More

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16

Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

Kate Bush · Hounds Of Love

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17

Learning To Fly

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers · Into The Great Wide Open

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18

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie · I Will Follow You into the Dark

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19

The Scientist

Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head

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20

Way down We Go

KALEO · A/B

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