This is present in the parts of the book where he blames other people of the group for not being well prepared for the Everest lifestyle. Kakutani from the New York Times states, “Krakauer quickly discovered that his fellow Everest clients were ‘nothing like the hardcore climbers’ he had climbed with in the past” (Review #1). This shows that the other clients in Krakauer’s team, in Krakauer’s opinion, are not the best of clients. One client in particular in Sandy Hill Pittman. “Sandy Hill Pittman, a wealthy New York socialite who arrived with a satellite phone, two computers, a CD-ROM player, an espresso maker and ‘stacks of press clippings about herself’” (Review #1). This shows that Krakauer was disturbed that Pittman was not well prepared for everest and had no idea what she was doing.
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This supports the idea that the book was written as a ‘Tattle-Tale’ book because he was sent to write about the commercialization of Everest. Obviously he did not do this because he wrote about how other people were to blame and how he was the only acceptable climber. Instead he should have mentioned that he was “slightly
This supports the idea that the book was written as a ‘Tattle-Tale’ book because he was sent to write about the commercialization of Everest. Obviously he did not do this because he wrote about how other people were to blame and how he was the only acceptable climber. Instead he should have mentioned that he was “slightly