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

azk's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

tanyak0203's review against another edition

4.0

Super interesting to learn about what it's like to climb Mount Everest. I found the first half to be a bit tedious as it was just a lot of background on climbing and the people involved. But in the second half it become more of a "page turner" because you know things will end in disaster, but you are waiting to find out exactly how and why. I should have read it in print rather than listened on audio, because I found it hard to keep track of all the names and dates - would have been easier in print.

eyyal3x's review against another edition

dark sad fast-paced

alyaudiobook's review against another edition

4.0

I enjoyed, but I didn't like it as much as some of the other disaster books I've read in the past.

I found it as a series a facts with limited emotion. It felt very 'one step removed' even though it was written by someone who was there. I'm sure reliving the trauma must have been difficult.