Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air

Speaker:Jon Krakauer, An author and mountaineer. He is well known for his writings about the outdoors. As a young man his primary focus was mountaineering which eventually lead to him becoming a writer

John Krakauer has numerous perspectives in his story, “The Devils Thumb,” but one caught my eye, and that was that he climbed the mountain solo. Reading this

Jon Krakauer creates tension and suspense throughout Into Thin Air by the order of events when he starts the book mid-story. In this time before he goes back to the actual beginning, Krakauer gives the reader a brief summary of his summiting, and when he starts down. At the end he leaves the readers on a cliffhanger, he said

Krakauer starts the beginning of Into Thin Air by telling the reader about Everest’s first climbers and expeditions. Everest was a mountain that no man could conquer and over time it was the goal of many to become the first person on top of the world. After this occurred the commercialization of Everest sky rocketed, which leads thousands of people climbing Everest every year. In order for clients on expeditions to climb, sherpas fix ropes, carry equipment, and set ladders in place for the trips to run smoothly. Krakauer describes the characters with great descriptions to make the reader attach to them and care when their fate is sealed. Eight climbers were stranded at the top of the world, all at different mental and physical abilities. Saving, abandoning, and dying will occur all at once on the night of May 10th. Death grasps many of climbers and takes them away, but a few manage to escape from death’s

On May 10, 1996, nine people perished on Mt. Everest. Jon Krakauer, a writer from Outside magazine, was there to witness the events and soon after write the book, Into Thin Air, chronicling the disaster. Jon Krakauer is not only the writer and narrator of Into Thin Air but is also one of the main characters. Originally Outside Magazine planned to send Krakauer to Everest in order for him to write a story for the magazine. The climb was completely financed by the magazine with one of the leading Everest guide groups led by Rob Hall, an elite climber. Krakauer divides the people on the mountain into two main categories, tourist and elite. The elite being guides and Sherpas like Hall, Harris and Ang Dorje,

Krakauer is one of the many people that decided that Everest needed to be climbed. Krakauer couldn’t help but take the impossible mission.

“The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road” - Jon Krakauer. This statement derives from Krakauer's thoughts and takeaways from his disastrous climb up Mount Everest that completely upset Krakauer's viewpoint of his lifelong dream, to climb the tallest mountain in the world. Krakauer recounts his journey while scaling Mount Everest in his non-fictional book Into Thin Air, that supports his statement of why the climb is not a Yellow Brick Road. Jon Krakauer's countless mountaineering adventures are the foundation of most of his books, including Eiger Dreams, Into Thin Air, and Into the Wild. Krakauer also uses religion as a base of his book Under the Banner of Heaven.

“You can never tell who the mountain will allow and who it will not.” The novel “Peak” by Roland Smith shows you the thrilling journey of climbing the tallest mountain in the world. Climbing a mountain for several months doesn’t just take physical strength, but also mental strength. The story takes you through Peak Marcello’s journey to become the youngest person in the world to climb Mt.Everest. “Peak” follows a theme of love, family, and most of all survival.

The Devil’s Thumb and Everest are both memoirs about the expeditions of mountain climbers and their struggle whilst on their journey. John Krakauer, a man who got up and left his life behind in hopes of a change in the way he lived earned a new perspective through his solo climb of the Devil’s Thumb and Erik Weihenmayor, a blind man who took people by surprise by, with the help of others, climbing Mount Everest and showing the world that disadvantages can sometimes be used to accomplish big. These two men overcame their struggles and achieved great things. Weihenmayor and Krakauer used different tones, organizational structures, and wrote about the perspectives they had to influence the central ideas of their memoirs.

Staying on the team has made our friendship closer than ever, but I always wonder how much simpler my life would be if I had just left while I could. Although my situation is nowhere near as critical as the decisions made by the characters in Into Thin Air, being through what I have has made me understand how burdensome it must have been for the climbers forced to decide between their own lives and the lives of others. Being able to relate my life to the key aspects of this book has given me a whole new appreciation for the story and the messages that Jon Krakauer tries to relay. The notorious journalistic account, Into Thin Air, is written by journalist Jon Krakauer and tells the astonishing true tale of a team of climbers who embark on a journey up Mt. Everest that will alter their lives forever.

This novel takes you from the base of Everest to the summit and then back down again. Each camp and elevation brings new people and challenges. Jon Krakauer is a journalist recruited to write an article about the commercialisation of Everest, little did he know that the weeks that followed would haunt him forever. Even with experienced guides, Sherpas and climbers an unexpected and violent storm turns a smooth expedition into a chaotic disaster.

Have you ever wondered what kind of hardships come with climbing the tallest mountain in the world before? Expectantly, the book Peak by Roland Smith and the movie Everest have a lot of similarities with some exceptionally prominent differences. From personal conflict and character conflict to the general aspect of climbing Mt. Everest, the book and the movie explore all different types of similarities and differences. Being similar, in both the movie and the book, the mountain always decides. The morals were constant and everyone experiences the same deal in similar ways. One significant difference came between Peak, the main character in the book, and Rob(5th summit attempt), the main character in the movie.

Mr. Krakauer was 42 at the time of the disastrous attempt on the highest peak in the Himalayas. Formerly an enthusiastic mountaineer but by then a slightly overweight author and journalist, he was sent by

Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air is an autobiographical book that does more than tell a story; it voices out the true definition of pain, strife, and hopelessness, exemplifying the all known rule of survival of the fittest.

This novel, Into Thin Air, has impacted me in a multitude of ways. The first being the surprise that I felt throughout the book. All of the deaths and mishaps showed me that climbing Everest is not as easy and as simple as I thought it was. Krakauer also crashed a wave of sorrow on to me, as I felt bad for all of the people who lost family and friends in the disaster, or experienced it. Along with this, I was also impacted because the author was very informative about Everest and its history. He delved deep into the past beliefs about the mountain, the measurements, and different ways people have ascended the mountain. Before reading Into Thin Air I was very much clueless about any history or information surrounding the mountain.