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INTO THIN AIR: PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE EVEREST DISASTER PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Jon Krakauer | 293 pages | 07 Aug 1998 | Pan MacMillan | 9780330353977 | English | London, United Kingdom Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster | Awards & Grants Get A Copy. Paperback , pages. Published October 19th by Anchor Books first published May 1st More Details Original Title. Rob Hall , Jon Krakauer. Nepal Mount Everest. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Into Thin Air , please sign up. Does this book read like a novel or like a documentary? Moncrieff Novel, definitely. I found it almost impossible to put this book down. While there is quite a bit of technical info, as Karis said, I never found it t …more Novel, definitely. While there is quite a bit of technical info, as Karis said, I never found it too much or that it slowed down the story. And I'm not typically interested in mountaineering at all. Krakauer's story is one of humanity and survival at its heart. Why do the bodies stay in the mountain? Firstly, it is indeed very costly to remove the bodies and the task also imposes many risks …more There are two reasons why the bodies stay on the mountain. Firstly, it is indeed very costly to remove the bodies and the task also imposes many risks to the climbers carrying the bodies down. Any physical labour at that altitude becomes almost impossible. Secondly, some climbers who devoted their lives to the mountains remain there per their final wishes. See all 16 questions about Into Thin Air…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Life got you down? Then join us on a guided expedition led by Capital Idiocy Inc. And in addition to our expertise an Life got you down? And in addition to our expertise and mentorship, we will have the support of the local populace, the Sherpa, to handle the basic logistical arrangements so that you can focus on the prize. We will prepare you for the high altitudes with our carefully developed Acclimatization Program. We have you covered…with the best protective clothing available! There is limited space! They have been there for years. Some of them suck big time…when it matters most too. We would be screwed without these guys. They cook, carry the heaviest loads, and lay out the ropes. Essentially they take care of the most dangerous tasks for a fraction of what we pay our Western guides. Plus they always have a delicious, steaming cup of tea ready when you reach your tent. And if a storm hits and you cannot find your way back to camp? Oh boy! Get ready for a windchill exceeding below zero. And frostbite. Lots of frostbite. Plus what good is all that gear when people keep losing their mittens and we find the deceased half-stripped? They can come out of nowhere. And with your severely handicapped mental capabilities, you may not even realize where you are. Heck, you may not even be at the top in actuality! They were off by a good feet. Plus they died on the way down. Double losers. Our number one priority is getting you to the summit, no matter the risks. And health? You can read it at home in your bed, safe and warm. The author, that crazy guy, already climbed Mount Everest for you. He reminds me of travel writer, Bill Bryson with his accessible, factual, and tension-filled writing, minus the humor. Because climbing Mount Everest is not funny. View all 92 comments. View all 15 comments. View all comments. Jun 21, Brigette rated it it was amazing. I recently attended the Banff mountain film festival in Canada. One of the key speakers was Simone Moro, the close friend of Anatoli Boukreev, the climber who was killed in an avalanche several years ago on Annapurna and whom Krakauer pretty much vilifies in this book as not having done enough to save the lives of those caught in the blizzard on Mount Everest in May of Needless to say, the vibe in the room was chilly whenever the subject of Krakauer's version of events came up; he was accu I recently attended the Banff mountain film festival in Canada. Needless to say, the vibe in the room was chilly whenever the subject of Krakauer's version of events came up; he was accused of slander and some in the room even claimed that he had not done much himself to save the lives of those in danger during the Everest disaster. Nevertheless, as a reader of climbing nonfiction, I stand by Krakauer. I have always found his account of the Everest disaster an intensely moving and thought- provoking one. Kraukauer loves climbing but is completely honest about the fact that such a dangerous sport so often puts one in the agonizing position of having to make life or death decisions under conditions that make clear thinking nearly impossible-- the cold, the lack of oxygen, the immense strain on the body at that great elevation. One gets the sense while reading that he is trying to make sense of this crazy sport as he writes, that this book is his process of figuring out the answer to the question: with all of the dangers and fatalities that result from climbing Everest, why on earth do people actually sign themselves up for this kind of thing? In the years since I first picked up this book, I have discovered many other great climbing books in the adventure genre, although Krakauer's remains one of my all-time favorites. If you enjoy Krakauer's writing, you might also enjoy Nando Parrado's Miracle in the Andes, a true account of the narrow escape of some members of a Uruguayan rugby team that survived by any means necessary-- and I do mean ANY means necessary--two grueling months in the Andes after their plane crashed in the mountains on the way home from a game. In addition, Joe Simpson's Touching the Void is a similarly remarkable story of a climber who survives unlikely odds after breaking his leg on the side of the mountain Siula Grande in Peru. There are also movie versions of both Titled Alive and Touching the Void, respectively. In addition, a movie version is due out soon for one of Krakauer's other wilderness adventure books, Into The Wild. View all 24 comments. Nov 02, Petra-X rated it really liked it Shelves: reviewed , biography-true-story. Into Thin Air or Injustice of many kinds on the Mountain. Until almost the end this book was exactly as I expected it to be with just one exception. It was the story of a journalist climbing Mount Everest both as a journalist and as a mountaineer. Ideal getting paid to do your hobby! It was interesting because Krakauer is a damn good writer and because its fascinating to see the details of how the mountain is climbed. It's also disappointing because few individuals do it by themselves, without Into Thin Air or Injustice of many kinds on the Mountain. It's also disappointing because few individuals do it by themselves, without a major support, like the guy who bicycled all the way around Europe to Nepal and then climbed the mountain alone I would have liked to have read his story but it was only alluded to in the book. For everyone else its a package tour for the fit and not-necessarily experienced who want to climb Everest and have an awful lot of spare cash. Transport is arranged, tents are set up, luggage is carried, there will be steaming hot tea awaiting the climbers on their return to their tents after an expedition, and if they really can't climb well, they can be short-roped and pulled up. Short-roped is the climber roping themselves with a less-than-one-metre rope to the waist of the would-be-climber and literally hauling them up. Still, even with all this portering and pampering I was surprised that the first climbers of the season using last year's ropes fitted ropes up Everest so that the climbers didn't have to set their own. More than that, the really difficult bits got ladders installed! But no matter how many shortcuts and easements they are able to achieve there are two things that can neither be predicted nor controlled. One is altitude sickness which in some forms can kill very quickly, and in others causes mental delusions that led one of the team to his death. And the other is the weather. At the beginning of this review, I mentioned there was one exception to my expectations for this book based on several books I have read by this author. The exception was one extraordinary chapter full of the most vituperative nastiness against a socialite climber. I didn't know why it was there. He didn't get any nicer towards her as the book progressed either, but then he said that when he was writing the book he had a 75 minute phone conversation with her. Either she didn't know what he'd written - I would never bother wasting time on someone who had that little respect for me and intended to tell the world - or he didn't write it until after the phone conversation. My only reaction to the chapter was thinking that the author was such a damn bitch.
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