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

Jon Krakauer

4.24 AVERAGE

priyasrini's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

popoyo_girl's review against another edition

5.0

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Into Thin Air is a piece of art. It is one of my favorite books, and I recommend it to everyone. It's tragic, thrilling, and beautifully written.

It is the epitome of how people reach their limits and in the end, nature prevails.

deer_abby_hansen's review against another edition

4.75

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jannifer's review against another edition

4.75

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cassiebloomie's review against another edition

4.0

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There’s a kind-of-twist in this that’s a little wild and jarring and frightening. But other than that there’s a LOTTTT of people to familiarize yourself with in this.

laurhhhhn's review against another edition

4.75

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c_moyn's review against another edition

4.25

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Two separate strangers told me they loved this book while i was reading it - one said it was their “favorite book of all time”

colleen4090's review against another edition

3.0

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Krakauer is a wonderful writer who knows how to keep people hooked from the very beginning of the story. He’s also very honest in the book about what climbing is like on Everest and his regrets for his role in not helping others on the mountain.

While reading the book, I was constantly feeling like he was either attacking the women who were also climbing or just severely writing them off as weak and maybe they shouldn’t be there. His attack on Sandy Hill Pittman is the biggest evidence of that. 

It’s also frustrating when krakauer keeps repeating “they should have done this” or “that was a bad decision”. Obviously hindsight is 50/50 but constantly saying this while writing about a disaster where eight people died is slightly tone deaf. Krakauer reminds me of the guys who say “well obviously they should have done this” when they weren’t there to help or anything 

camiyam's review against another edition

4.25

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jpolan2's review against another edition

4.75

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