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Summary: The 1996 Disaster on Mount Everest.
Review: I found this book to be very compelling and very suspenseful. Jon Krakauer shares his thoughts in so many different and interesting ways..The best disaster book!
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Summary: The Best Book I Have Ever Read
Review: I kon wthis sounds childish and silly but this is the best cook I have ever read. And I have read it many times in the last year. It has turned me on to climbed to the point where I have a small* library on mountaineering. Ire commend this book to anyone mountaineer/armchair moutaineer or reader. You will LOVE this book. *Small in relation to the library of congress
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Summary: what a great book
Review: Read the book in 2-days because I couldn't stop. You know the outcome within the first five pages, yet you can't help wonder how it all happened. Simply one of the best works of non-fiction I have ever read.
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Summary: I couldn't put it down
Review: The best book iv'e read yet. It felt like I was actuley there
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Summary: riveting book, big question unanswered
Review: Into Thin Air is a riveting and harrowing account of the 1996 Everest disaster; Jon Krakauer's honest, self-critical evaluation of his own and others' role in both the heroic efforts and fatal blunders made on the near-30,000 foot peak rings true throughout. The book's weakness is the dismissal of Rob Hall's disastrous decision to postpone his original 2 O'clock abort time for the summitting repeatedly as inexplicable. Further in-depth reportage by exploring Hall's personality and personal history in more detail could have been useful; as Krakauer admits, Hall's decision not to turn the climbers back may have cost those who died on Everest from his party their lives, and thus deserves much closer scrutiny. Krakauer's understandable personal aversion to offending any of Hall's family or friends any further than he might have likely was the reason for this. Still, the book is an affecting and literate account of the tragedy.
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Summary: Carpe diem
Review: "All you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be." We each choose our path to follow, and must accept the consequences of the crossroads. An unending search--for meaning, for purpose, for reason--still eventually, inevitably, winds its way to our death. The answers might be found on a mountain or an ocean, in a book or a song. They may never be found. But they were in the heart and soul of the questioner all along. He has only to listen.
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Summary: You can feel the cold
Review: What an amazing true life story. The first 100 pages makes you want to run out and start climbing Everest. By the time your done, your never want to see the Mt.
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Summary: A haunting account
Review: Jon Krakauer has put together a very well written, compelling account on his experiences from the '96 Everest disaster. While it seems clear that this is HIS side of the story, and thus gives a slanted view on what happened, IMHO he also does not try to make himself look better than anybody else. I have heard that "The Climb" will tell a different story. I intend to read it as well. However, I think that the truth lies somewhere in between: It is probably not possible for anyone to give a completely objective account on things that happened during such conditions. Some of the reviewers here seems to take the position "Oooh, I would have made SO many more correct, heroic desicions, had I only been there". I think that is very easy to say, sitting with the book in your comfortable armchair at sea-level. Krakauer might take upon himself to pass judgement upon others, but at least he was there... This book is well worth reading!
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Summary: excellent book
Review: I was very impressed with Into Thin Air. I read the book while stuck in a tent on a very hot, rainy, and miserable backpacking trip last summer and the book quickly made me reasses how bad my situation really was. This is one of the few books that left me disturbed at the end. The book left me in shock. I thought for weeks about some of the events Krakauer described. Krakauer's writing is superb, and the impression I got from Into Thin Air caused me to read two more of his books, Eiger Dreams and Into The Wild, which were also very good books.
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Summary: climb with him
Review: I'm not a climber and I'm pretty scared about that. But this book take you up there, you breathe when they breathe, you are cold when they are cold, you are tired when they are tired. It's a 8848 mt's dive.
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