Review Of Into Thin Air, By Jon Krakauer

The main character and protagonist, Jon Krakauer, is a United States client and journalist who is on an expedition to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest. He takes the reader through his horrifying experiences on the mountain, including the death of his team, lack of oxygen, and horrible weather. The conflict in this novel is an internal and external conflict. It is an internal conflict of man vs. himself. Jon Krakauer, had to go through mental states of giving up and dying on the mountain

Lopsang Jangbu was clearly downsized by Jon Krakauer in his article “Into thin Air” and Lopsang quite frankly did the right things on the Everest expedition on 1996. Lopsang did not deserve the accusations and the accusations presented by Krakauer.

Krakauer was fascinated by mountain climbing from a young age. “How would it feel, I wondered over and over, to be on that thumbnail-thin summit ridge, worrying over the storm clouds building on the horizon, hunched against the wind and dunning cold, contemplating the horrible drop on either side?” Asked Krakauer. He had received a book as a child that was full of information about mountain climbing, and he was fascinated. Krakauer was glued to his book for the next decade, until he finally decided to put his dreams into action. When he was twenty

Despite his impressive record he had never attempted anything close to the scale of Everest, whose summit is at an extremely dangerous altitude. He even admits to his relative inexperience with high altitude saying, “Truth be told, I’d never been higher than 17,200 feet--not even as high as Everest Base Camp”(28). Krakauer also mentions how he has gotten out of shape over the years partially because of the lack of climbing in his life, making him even less prepared for the assent. Krakauer shows a definite fear of such a high mountain, referring to climbers who have perished in the past. He states that, “Many of those who died had been far stronger and possessed vastly more high-altitude experience than I.” (28). Even though Krakauer’s experience may be more relevant to the Everest assent than some of the other tourist climbers, it is nowhere near the level needed to be considered an elite climber.

Mount Everest is 29,092 feet tall. Imagine climbing this mountain with little to no experience. Would you survive? In the nonfiction novel Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer and his recruited crews try climbing this mountain. With many deaths along the way to the top, readers are quick to blame characters in the book. However, character stands out from the rest: Krakauer. In the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer is the most responsible for the other character’s deaths because he recruited and dragged along inexperienced mountain climbers, pushed them harder than they should’ve been pushed, and watched them suffer.

“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.

In order to continue climbing Everest, many aspects of climbing need to be improved before more people endanger their lives to try and reach the roof of the world. The guides have some areas that need the most reform. During the ascension of Everest the guides made a plethora mistakes that seemed insignificant but only aided in disaster. The guides first mistake is allowing “any bloody idiot [with enough determination] up” Everest (Krakauer 153). By allowing “any bloody idiot” with no climbing experience to try and climb the most challenging mountain in the world, the guides are almost inviting trouble. Having inexperienced climbers decreases the trust a climbing team has in one another, causing an individual approach to climbing the mountain and more reliance on the guides. While this approach appears fine, this fault is seen in addition to another in Scott Fischer’s expedition Mountain Madness. Due to the carefree manner in which the expedition was run, “clients [moved] up and down the mountain independently during the acclimation period, [Fischer] had to make a number of hurried, unplanned excursions between Base Camp and the upper camps when several clients experienced problems and needed to be escorted down,” (154). Two problems present in the Mountain Madness expedition were seen before the summit push: the allowance of inexperienced climbers and an unplanned climbing regime. A third problem that aided disaster was the difference in opinion in regards to the responsibilities of a guide on Everest. One guide “went down alone many hours ahead of the clients” and went “without supplemental oxygen” (318). These three major issues: allowing anyone up the mountain, not having a plan to climb Everest and differences in opinion. All contributed to the disaster on Everest in

In this novel, the reoccurring theme of responsibility is prevalent throughout Krakeur’s ascent up the “third pole” of the world, Mt. Everest. It is responsibility that eventually leads John’s climbing guide to drive himself to death as he struggles to lead his clients up the mountain. This theme shows us that a hiking guide should provide the utmost care and satisfaction to his clients throughout the climb, but should refrain from doing so when the guides own health is in a significant amount of danger. Even other fellow clients and climbers should be able to depend on each other for aid and safety, but never at the risk of their own life. The actions of Andy Harris, Krakauer’s climbing guide, and his bold determination to care for the survival and well-being of his clients, make us question the depths to which a person should go to care for other people before caring for themselves.

Krakauer has mastered simplistic yet intricate all at the same time. This is why they chose Jon Krakauer to go onto the mountain to write and document the struggle of life at 29,000 feet for the newspaper back in Seattle. As a young man in good physical shape who had always had it out to climb Everest, it was fitting for Jon to be chosen. The climb is a multiple month long journey. It starts with the slow journey up into the altitude and waiting for acclimatization there at the first base camp. There are four base camps in total. One being the lowest in height, four is the highest. Once you slowly work your way from

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes" (Sasson). Literature teaches many life lessons, sometimes, in ways life can not. The ability to persevere and overcome challenges is one way literature teaches. In the story of Into Thin Air, a journey where Jon Krakauer had to have a great amount of endurance to overcome great odds. As a child, Jon Krakauer had always yearned to climb, and as Jon grew up he realized his dreams could become reality.

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.

Jon Krakauer is a journalist for magazine called Outside, that lives in Seattle, Washington. One day, the magazine Jon worked for got a call from Adventure Consultants, an expedition team that guides people up Mount Everest for a hefty fee, asking them to send a reporter to write about climbing Mount Everest. Krakauer immediately volunteered for the task. The Outside paid for all Krakauer’s climbing expenses, and about a year later he began his journey.

The Harvard Business School case Mount Everest – 1996 narrates the events of May 11, 1996, when 8 people-including the two expedition leaders— died during a climb to the tallest mountain in the world (five deaths are described in the case, three border police form India also died that day). This was dubbed the “deadliest day in the mountain’s history” (at least until April 18, 2014). The survivors and many analysts have tried to decipher what went wrong that day, find an underlying cause, and learn from the event.

In Jon Krakauer’s Memoir Into Thin Air, Krakauer uses a variety of elements to make his story more effective. Prevalent in Into Thin Air, are Krakauer’s uses of both logos and imagery to convey his experience on Everest. The facts and descriptions in the memoir tie the story together and captivate the reader.

The rugged ascent of Mount Everest is every insane climbers dream, but nightmare at the same time. The steep and deadly slopes of the towering Mountain are illustrated and portrayed in the minds of the readers throughout the abstract and meaningful poem; The Summit. This poem is all about the intrepid and enduring journey up Mount Everest, taken on by the courageous pioneers; Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary in the year of 1953. The poem itself uses various different types of language features to hook and intrigue the readers.