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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
This book was exceedingly difficult for me to read, I recently lost a friend of mine to similar circumstances as the ones described in the book. The author, being one of the few survivors of the disaster, was able to give an extremely detailed account of his horrifying experience on the mountain, Jon Krakauer's writing is fantastic and it makes you visualize the climbers' increasingly worsening situation easily. Rather than using the anglicized name, I'm glad some references to Everest were made using its original designation, Sagarmatha. I find it incredibly disheartening to hear about the rich white folks who perceive themselves to such an extent that they are somehow above the tallest mountain in the world. Climbing Everest currently is a rich man's game, played at the cost of the poor they hire to carry their luggage for them. It has been on my bucket list to visit Everest's Base Camp someday ever since I was a child, hopefully, it can still happen. A solid read that was truly a pleasure.