Reviews - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

Jon Krakauer

4.24 AVERAGE

jhillman09's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

A ho hum first 2/3 before a riveting - in the darkest and saddest sense - conclusion. Yet the saddest part of all come after the final pages, in the Epilogue and Postscript.

adisiki's review against another edition

4.0

Read as an audiobook! This was good, a tragic and totally avoidable fate. I will never understand the ego of people that do these “thrill-seeking” activities (i.e. mountain climbing, cave diving, etc.) because Jon’s description of what it was like on the summit of Everest sounds like a literal nightmare. It’s impossible to know exactly what happened on that trip and what could’ve been done better for those that lost their lives, but I felt like this was well-written and dived deeper into each of the team members.