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

Jon Krakauer

4.24 AVERAGE

himpersonal's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional informative mysterious sad medium-paced

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acclimatization, altitude sickness, Apartheid, Buddhism, Cairo, climactic elements, death, folly, frostbite, glory chasing, grief, hubris, ice climbing, India, (in)experience, medical content, monetization, Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, mountaineering, oxygen deprivation, preparation, racism, risk taking, selfishness, sherpas, shifting glaciers, South Africa, team dependence, Tehran, thin air, trekking, trusting the inner voice, UV over exposure, vertigo, vomiting + triggers

Nepal, multiple: Asian, Black, female

emm133's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

m_elm's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous informative reflective sad fast-paced

mlgionet's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense

kacha_20's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging informative sad medium-paced

mayareadsalittletoomuch's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark informative sad tense medium-paced

sundaynightkid's review against another edition

4.25

challenging reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

alesha_b's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

nelroden's review against another edition

5.0

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Kicking myself for picking it up and putting it down so much since the new year. Amazing read

blakeforrest's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous tense fast-paced