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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
101 reviews
cranea653's review against another edition
2.25
Moderate: Death
rockymtndad's review
5.0
Graphic: Death
nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition
5.0
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.
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, and Grief
Moderate: Blood, Colonisation, and Excrement
Minor: Deadnaming, Vomit, Drug use, and Alcohol
jillianlovesbooks's review against another edition
4.75
that book was a little intense but such an important read
it hit me right in the gut
loved it tho!
Graphic: Vomit, Medical trauma, Chronic illness, Medical content, Death, Body horror, Cursing, Gore, and Grief
karism576's review
4.0
Graphic: Medical trauma and Death
albon's review
5.0
Graphic: Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Medical content, and Body horror
Minor: Car accident and Drug use
mollyb13's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Death
Moderate: Vomit
hellavaral's review
4.0
Graphic: Grief, Death, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Blood, Medical content, and Vomit
emiliegrace's review against another edition
5.0
The sh*itstorm that Krakauer and his fellow mountaineers endured on the summit was genuinely one of the most intense things I have ever read. The countless decisions and mishaps that led up to the expeditions disastrous end (taking a total of 12 lives) are detailed and explored in such great detail. It really felt as if Krakauer left no stone unturned in dissecting the traumatic experience he had gone through.
I particularly enjoyed his discussion and exploration of the commercialization of Everest, and all the ways in which that influenced the people on the mountain that day and the decisions they had made (ex. Hall feeling pressure for his business from having failed his previous expedition, Fischer feeling pressure from having the presence of media - Sandy Pittman - as a paying client)
Krakauer takes such care in detailing the background and context of each individual on Everest with him in 1996 - guides, fellow clients, and sherpas alike. He pays deep respect towards every person and event he chronicles. While it would seem easy to lose track of who he is discussing, each event is set up with a beautiful description of the people involved (ex. the death of Ngawang Sherpa or the controversial nature of the South African and Taiwanese teams).
It’s truly such an awe-inspiring tale of devastating consequences yet tenacious heroism. I couldn’t put it down - and I even purchased a copy to more thoroughly annotate.
Graphic: Death
kittkattsnacck's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail