Reviews tagging 'Grief'

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

36 reviews

belle2008's review against another edition

adventurous dark informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

niltic's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Wonderfully pulling together a frantic series of events and cast of characters, Krakaeur explores his personal role and experiences relating to the electric events of 1996. His historical background, insight into mountaineering, and interviews with the other survivors bring depth and complexity to one man’s account. His reflections feel fair, but very occasionally overstep his own expertise given his background as an experienced mountaineer but relative novice high alpine climber. The book may have benefited from interviews with other high alpinists who were not present at the events to add weight and nuance to some of Krakauer’s judgements. Otherwise an excellent read by any measure.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Death, Grief, and Abandonment

Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Medical content

Several people die, are injured, traumatised, and abandoned during the events. Descriptions are not gratuitous, but the unprocessed trauma and grief of the author make it relatively raw to read.

book_addict's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Grief, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, and Death

annabelle's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

Reading this was like watching a trainwreck in slow motion and being unable to look away.

It’s a fascinating story of a what people are able to endure with bits of history sprinkled in. You see the physical and mental toll that climbing Everest takes, how it impairs decision making, and all the little mistakes that kept adding up. 

It’s honestly very hard to read at times and I cried. A lot. I honestly was not expecting to be so upset when I knew what was going to happen, but something about it really touched me. I think it was the combination of this being a first hand account and the way Krakauer writes that makes you so invested. 

That being said, I don’t particularly like Krakauer. Sometimes his opinions rubbed me the wrong way, but this is his view of what happened which is still valid. I just took some of his comments with a grain of salt. 

Would I say I enjoyed this? I don’t know. It was hard to read about people experiencing a very traumatic event, but I couldn’t put it down as morbid as that sounds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Grief

ajones329's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

The devastating, true story of the Everest expedition tragedy of 1996. Raw and emotional. A gripping story of adventure and tragedy

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death and Grief

imbananasfordananas's review against another edition

adventurous challenging sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief and Death