Reviews tagging 'Death'

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

98 reviews

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

coolbeans995's review

dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

This was truly a remarkable story. I can't imagine going through what these people went through and writing a book about it so soon after. I hope the author has found some peace, I'd be curious to hear from some of the climbers reflecting on what happened now. This has me interested in a deep dive rabbit hole on the subject.

It wasn't always easy to remember who was who as I listened via audiobook, but looking up pictures was helpful.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

xbarr2's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

daniandsn's review

adventurous challenging dark tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

megn9's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

mmccombs's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.0

Why anyone would want to climb Everest is just astounding to me. I’d be curious to read his take on this story like now rather than so immediately after it happened, would there be a bit more reflection or different ideas here? I appreciated how he broke down all of the tiny pieces that made for such a disaster, but I do not feel like it fully addressed every factor at play, like colonialism or maybe even the idea of the “manifest destiny” that plagues the outdoors-y population. An interesting story (though I got mixed up on the names and locations a lot) that I wished had a bit more depth, but wow! Everest is nuts!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Colonisation and Racism

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

cranea653's review against another edition

adventurous emotional

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death

rockymtndad's review

adventurous dark informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

Exciting adventure tale.  Author does a great job of offering details that allowed me the perspective to feel like I was present. Intense and alarming first hand account of the life/death that i  Mt. Everest.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

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