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There was lots of technical jargon about high altitude mountain climbing, but it was still highly readable. The 2nd half moved a lot faster than the 1st. For me, mountain climbing just seems like way too much effort.
this book was craaaazy it made me go consume as much everest content as i could in like a week. the psychology of doing this is so fascinating and completely i relatable to me.
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The narrator for the audiobook was incredible. I found this very harrowing. I think the straightforwardness of the writing intensified the disturbed feeling I got listening to the book. Hypoxia in a disaster like this sounds like it’s akin to descension into madness.
A book that has been on my list for a long time, particularly because Into the Wild was very formative for me when I read it back in high school. I also generally enjoy the genre of "journalistic investigation into person in peril in the mountains" (Ty Gagne does this particularly well). However, reading this over 20 years on, I did think that a lot of the criticism Krakauer received after writing Into Thin Air was warranted. He attempted to present this as a factual, journalistic account into something that he was clearly too close to, and too traumatized by. Also, the fact that he switched between first and last names to indicate characters drove me insane.
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