Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

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

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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.