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Summary: An intense, gripping account everyone should read.
Review: The most amazing transformation came over this reader while getting wrapped up in Krakauers prosaic crawl up Everest....While the horrors were palpable, the pain ubiquitous, I began to assume the role of a fellow climber and actually got summit fever! Never before have I been moved to risk life and limb for an adventure. Climbers actually stepped over the frozen bodies of their fallen brethren, but the lure of the summit must be THAT intense. Of course there is solemn pity, and this book nearly had me in tears over the plights of some, especially Beck Weathers. Read this, and see if, like me, the quote 'because it's there' doesn't begin to make sense.
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Summary: Can't put the book down once you begin.
Review: One of the best written books I've ever read.I actually thought I was on the Mt. as the story unfolded before me. After you read the book rent the movie of the same title.
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Summary: An adventure that tragically teaches us about nature
Review: This book presents the need for some of us to attempt that which is theoretically preposterous. Krakauer takes us into the very psyche that predominates all other human needs...SURVIVAL. This book provided us with a window to our own souls, in the sense that one couldn't help to say: What would I have done? I found this book to be truly intriging and more than worth while to read.
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Summary: Fabulous reading-couldn't put it down!
Review: If you like action and adventure this is the book for you. Once you read the first few pages you won't want to put it down. It is hard to believe people atually endure that kind of hardships and actually enjoy it. Get this book!
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Summary: This book was awesome
Review: I was up until 4:00 am last night reading this book. This is the first book that I have EVER read in a single day. One sees the harrowing struggle of even a "regular" Everest attempt, one where nothing goes wrong. However, what makes Into Thin Air so compelling is the way this attempt turned into such an unmitigated disaster. Krakauer puts his reader in his shoes, anyone with the remotest mountaineering experience can understand the horrible physical sensations he suffered without relief. Additionally, before reading this book, I tended to look down upon Rob Hall, writing him off as an egomaniac who exploited his clients for significant financial gain. Krakauer showed me that there was more to the story than what met the eye.
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Summary: I have my doubts, but it's a great book
Review: I disagree with some of the comments in the student reviews that preceed this one. Details about the people, their status, the shirpas, the equipmant and so forth were hardly boring. They brought me as a reader into the situation on Everest. They also set the pace of the book. Come on, guys, it's about mountain climbing. If you don't have the patience for it, go watch an action movie. I bet those kids would go nuts if they had to read anything by Austen or Henry James. But on to the book.I have read this book and Anatoli Boukreev's "The Climb". I think both authors paint themselves in more positive a light than they deserve, but such a flaw is forgivable. Krakauer's writing is superb. He is a gifted story teller and in this case a highly believable one since he took part in the events he writes about. On the moral side of things, I don't have too much sympathy for the Everest climbers. I find the survivors whine a little too much about how horrible the experience was. I'm sure it was terrible, but why not take a little personal responsibility and admit that this was a risk you all signed up for and you must live with the consequences. If there's anything you SHOULD feel terrible about, it's your failure to rescue Yasuko Namba and Beck Weathers when you went out the next day in clear weather and found them still alive. I'm also very tired of the dispute between Krakauer and Boukreev (now represented posthumously by his inept ghost writer). Who cares which of them was right. Probably neither of them was. Anyway, all issues aside, it's a superb book.
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Summary: It was a vary good book
Review: It is a book every one should raed
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Summary: Exhilarating!
Review: Perfect read for the day hiker to the accomplished mountaineer. Really shows you what the human body and mind are all about and the boundless capabilities of both when driven.
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Summary: My classmates and I think the book was slow and boring.
Review: Into Thin Air is about a group of climbers and their expedition up Mount Everest. The author discusses his experience while climbing up the mountain with his team. Jon Krakauer was the first to reach the very top of Everest. Five people out of eight turned back from Rob Hall's team for various reasons, some became very ill and others turned back because they were scared. We found the book boring and overly detailed in many parts. In chapter one, the author spent one paragraph talking about how Yasuko Namba was going to be the oldest lady to ever climb Everest. We lost interest very shortly in the book; it didn't begin to get good until the end. To keep us interested, we think the author should have been less detailed and talked more about the journey than about other things that were less important. Talking more about the struggles and what they said and who got sick and how, and how they were feeling emotionally and physically, that would have caught our interest.
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Summary: Readers From Santa Monica High School
Review: Into Thin Air is about a man who climbed Mount Everest and he writes about his story of what happend on the mountain. Our opinion of Into Thin Air is that we didn't like it. We thought it moved too slowly,and the author went on and on . He also spent to much time describing things.It was boring. The author sounded like a magazine, because he was so factual. We wouldn't want to read it again.(We had to read it for summer reading)Christina + Francis, Santa Monica High School
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