Into To Thin Air Analysis

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In the story Into To Thin Air, they left Weathers and Namba because they didn't think they could be saved.They should have brought enough supplies to be able to help them because that’s what they went out there to do.The team thought that they should save their resources for others that could be save.At the end of the story they told of one helicopter saving Weathers and Gau and if Weathers would of died they would have only saved one person so they could have wasted there resoureses on them because they were still breathing.

Weathers made mistakes but the sherpas should have saved him and Namba. Before the storm began Weathers was climbing with hall and began not to be able to see.After keeping it from the group he finally told Hall and Hall told him to stay there and promise not to leave and climb down the mountain without help.After many people had come by and asked him if he wanted to come down with them the storm began to get bad.Weathers should have gone down with Krakauer once he saw the weather getting worse because he knew that it was hard for people to be rescued at that altitude.He also knew that if he began not to be able to stand that there

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