Reviews tagging 'Colonisation'

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

6 reviews

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

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

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

matcha_cat's review

adventurous challenging emotional informative medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Sexual content, Colonisation, Medical content, Excrement, Blood, and Vomit

magsbord's review

challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Body horror, Colonisation, and Death

banannakarenina's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Grief

Minor: Colonisation, Vomit, and Excrement