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A review by cassiakarin
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
5.0
Allow me to quote myself in what I texted to my husband the morning I completed this novel:
“I am physically shaken and emotionally disturbed upon finishing Krakauer's Into Thin Air. Horrifying, with no resolve or solace for my beating heart to idle through or my nerves to land or dissipate upon. I thought it was going to be a riveting and proud tale of feats accomplished and man's conquering splendor before a giant of renown. No. It's a journalistic retelling of desperate cries, unwarranted loss, unquenchable desire, frivolous pride, cold distance, and nerve breaking horrors of ghosts, corpses, and grotesque resurrections. Yikes, I am stirred and quivering with anxious nausea…”
Ya, those are the kinds of texts I send to my husband…but you might say, “So, you didn’t like it?” Wrong. I highly recommend this book, and partially regret being the one to break the mystery of it’s contents for you since the surprise was such a powerful element of the book’s affect on me. This book is already considered a “classic” in the mountaineering world. Once I read it, I realized how many renown climbers have quotes from it regularly on their lips.
Recommended by: Unknown (Most likely influenced by my husband who is deeply in the climbing world)
“I am physically shaken and emotionally disturbed upon finishing Krakauer's Into Thin Air. Horrifying, with no resolve or solace for my beating heart to idle through or my nerves to land or dissipate upon. I thought it was going to be a riveting and proud tale of feats accomplished and man's conquering splendor before a giant of renown. No. It's a journalistic retelling of desperate cries, unwarranted loss, unquenchable desire, frivolous pride, cold distance, and nerve breaking horrors of ghosts, corpses, and grotesque resurrections. Yikes, I am stirred and quivering with anxious nausea…”
Ya, those are the kinds of texts I send to my husband…but you might say, “So, you didn’t like it?” Wrong. I highly recommend this book, and partially regret being the one to break the mystery of it’s contents for you since the surprise was such a powerful element of the book’s affect on me. This book is already considered a “classic” in the mountaineering world. Once I read it, I realized how many renown climbers have quotes from it regularly on their lips.
Recommended by: Unknown (Most likely influenced by my husband who is deeply in the climbing world)