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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

dmille1's review

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adventurous emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

Thanks to my TikTok algorithm, I’ve learned a lot about climbing Mt Everest this spring. I heard about this book and wanted to check it out. Despite this being about a climb in 1996, this book was still fascinating and very easy to picture thanks to me following a polish guy on his climb this year. First non-fiction book of the year in the books. 

wtmashley's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

5.0

kiwi152's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

5.0

sebren's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

blueberrybanana's review against another edition

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5.0

Read this in one day. Bleak and horrifying and thrilling.

vbear's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

3.5

marthathemartian's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced

4.25

rac26's review against another edition

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5.0

A must read. A tough read (make sure you are warm). A haunting series of events after plans are discarded. Follow-up the read with a google.

ibby2's review against another edition

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5.0

I can’t believe this is a true story. I read it so fast bc I couldn’t stop thinking about it. What if they gave the oxygen mask to Yasuko Namba instead of Sandy Pittman? What happened to Andy Harris? How did Beck survive?? I still don’t understand why anyone would put themselves through trying to climb Mount Everest. It’s incredible that more people didn’t die since you lose the ability to think clearly at that altitude. AND HOW DID THEY CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST WITHOUT SLEEPING AT ALL???

jkpheart21's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0