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Summary: Makes you wish you never read it so you can read it again.
Review: Into Thin Air is a book that you don't need to know much about mounntian climbing to read and enjoy. Jon makes statements that say something and later on as you read it turns out what he said before was wrong. It makes you feel as if you're there learning with Jon as things happen. It's in a way a journal but in another way and autobiographic expirence that combines as a wonderful book. This book of his exciting and devistating account on the 29,028 ft. peak is a great read for adults and some young adult readers who like adventure and mountain climbing books.
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Summary: A great account of an awful event
Review: This is a wonderful account of the terrible events that happened high on the slopes of Everest. The facts of what happened, when it happened are supplemented by the why they happened by a person who was there and survived. No-one else could have told the story as well. What the book leaves you with are the disquieting thoughts on the morality of being able to purchase high adventure and high risk. Behind every one of these ventures are the Sherpas - servicing tourism at high altitude.This is one of those books that I'm sure I'll read again and again. Like "The White Spider", it is a classic of its genre.
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Summary: A must read. Climbers to couch potatoes. It's real life...
Review: This book made me feel like I was there. Not watching a story unfold, but a "a fly on the wall" of The Hillary Step. It was like a war-time epic, the elements the enemy. Beating the odds, real time. I feel for the author. What an incredibly difficult journey to survive. Each of us is an individual, and experience life "in the moment" differently. I feel that John Krakauer's story is moving and honest. I'll share this book with my friends and family. We are lucky to simply "be". If we choose to stand on top of the world -- we live with the "re-action of our action", getting there's more than half the fun. A thrill for me is riding a spirited horse. J. Vance Canadian.
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Summary: Why Climb Everest
Review: This book bears the eternal question....why do people climb this mountain?! It is a throughly engaging book. Like a train wreck, it's hard to tear your eyes away. Very well written and fast moving.
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Summary: A fascinating account of life and death at 29,000 feet.
Review: While quickly turning this book's pages in the comfort of my home, all I wonder is why anyone would, in their right mind, want to go climb Mount Everest. Krakauer does a great job capturing the misery and horrible conditions associated with the climbers' ascent and descent of the world's tallest peak. I felt as if I was reading about people trying to exist in a place where they really don't belong.
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Summary: Gripping!
Review: All I can say is that this book is gripping and fantastic. Jon does an excellent job of depicting the climb, and environment.Through the characters, the reader vicariously experiences the missery, angst, and fatigue encountered on this horrific Everest expedition.
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Summary: Unbelievable
Review: What an honest account of what happened. I wish that author wasn't so had on himself. Nobody died because of his actions or lack there of. How could he save anyone when he was struggling with his own survival. Anyway, great book. One of those books I can't stop thinking about.
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Summary: Stark, and honest, an excellent book...
Review: Ever since I was in seventh or eighth grade I have been interested in mountain climbing. There is something appealing about a sport that insists on total self-reliance. Into Thin Air is a wonderfully written book about just what can happen. In March of 1996 Jon Karkauer was set on an expedition to Mount Everest by Outside magazine. His expedition was led by the renowned climber Rob Hall. Karkauer, along with the guides, sherpas, and other clients in Hall's expedition, found out what happens when a storm comes up at 28,000 feet. Into Thin Air is a stark, horrifying, and exhilarating story about humans facing a sudden disaster they are powerless to overcome, and, in some cases, powerless to survive. This account is wonderful because it is so honest.
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Summary: Titanic in the mountains - but no 'big' literature
Review: This book describes the Titanic-tragedy - just in another setting. Capitalism and human hybris lead not to the sinking of a ship but to the death of 'hobby-climbers' (and their experienced guides) in a surrounding simply not made for hobby-climbers... The story itself is fascinating, as any great human tragedy. Unfortunate is only, that Jon Krakauer is not a really good writer. Compare Maurice Herzog's 'Annapurna' and Heinrich Harrer's 'The White Spider' with it and you may feel the incredible difference.
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Summary: Jon Krakauer does the best he can to put you on Everest
Review: Into Thin Air gives readers a first-hand look at what it was like on that fateful day in 1996. Jon Krakauer takes you on a step-by-step ascent up the world's tallest mountain, never leaving-out relevant details. Krakauer then takes his readers on a cold, horrific descent into the base camps as the size of his expedition slowly withers. His words and pace match his state of consciousness throughout his trip up and down Everest. The only downfall are some overly explained details in the beginning of the book. It picks-up quickly towards the middle. Maps in the middle of the book explain the detailed route that he explains at some length. A wonderful read!
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