Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

41 reviews

becinneverland's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I was already a fan of Krakauer, having been at various times in my life obsessed with Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven.

Well, this time he really broke me. I can't stop thinking about Mount Everest and about high altitude disasters.

What Krakauer and his companions endured in 1996 is one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. His reflections of his own grief, the other survivors' reactions, the true misery that they endured during the disaster...I'm honestly haunted by it. It had me sobbing.

Krakauer was clearly deep in his own trauma when he wrote it, and you can tell.

My respect for him as a journalist, a mountaineer, and a human being is higher than it's ever been.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, and Colonisation

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Vomit, and Alcohol

jillianlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

WOW and OUCH
that book was a little intense but such an important read 
it hit me right in the gut 
loved it tho!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

the very end of the book when he talks about that girls death and how he never looked back to help her really just punched me in the gut because that pain has to be terrible

mollyb13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

In a 'perfect storm' type of situation, journalist Jon Krakauer found himself in the middle of one of the deadliest events in Everest's climbing history. He was in an extremely unique position to use his writing skills to cover the expedition and successfully interview a majority of the people involved after the event. I can't imagine the pain of being tied to this event in any sort of manner - and I'm glad that he turned his original Outside article into a full book. He seemed to have a good balance of telling his own story in a vulnerable way while also reporting the situation in a factual manner. This one is going to stick with me for quite a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

hellavaral's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Medical content

gomoon's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

matcha_cat's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Grief, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Sexual content, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, and Colonisation

mloschi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

5.0

A gripping adventure tale that drives home the thrill and courage of climbers , the will to survive in extreme circumstances, and the nuance and humanity in the face of tragedy. The writing drew me in and offered an informative and engaging glimpse into what it is to climb Everest and the narrow margin between reward and risk on the mountain. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

waywardcrow's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Well damn. I don't know what exactly I was expecting when I picked up this book. I knew it would be tragic but nothing could have prepared me for how graphically and vividly Krakauer was able to portray the failed expedition. Even though it was hard to remember who was who in the long list of people on the mountain, I still felt deeply saddened by every death. This is an incredible accounting of such a traumatizing experience. This book really makes you think deeply about human mortality and the psychology behind those who are willing to jeopardize their lives to accomplish the most dangerous exploits. It also makes you think about humanity's respect (or lack thereof) for nature, the inability to admire great beauty from afar to the point that beauty is destroyed. On a lighter note, I learned a lot about climbing and there's much more still that I couldn't quite grasp. Maybe once I recover in ten years, l'll read again to try to understand more about the geography and climbing techniques the author did so well in attempting to describe.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

danimacuk's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Medical trauma, and Abandonment

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail