Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

36 reviews

cfitz13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail and Death

jakesdv99's review

adventurous dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Excrement, Gore, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

oliviamich's review

adventurous dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Probably my favorite book ever. I could reread this anytime any where and get lost in it. Hell, I could probably open it up to any page and take off from there. Krakauer is such an engaging storyteller and while this book makes me NEVER want to climb Everest it has given me an understanding of the people who feel called to do so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Death

Moderate: Medical content

Minor: Colonisation and Classism

michypoo70's review

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Grief

Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, and Excrement

Minor: Deadnaming, Vomit, Drug use, and Alcohol

albon's review

adventurous dark

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, and Body horror

Minor: Car accident and Drug use

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: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death

Moderate: Vomit

hellavaral's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Medical content, and Vomit

kittkattsnacck's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail