Into Thin Air

Imagine yourself standing on top of a mountain, feeling the breeze hit your face and flowing through your hair. Imagine yourself feeling the weight and burden of everything that’s ever happened to you suddenly disappear as you look across the mountain top, viewing the world from a much clearer sight than anything you’ve ever seen before. Imagine, just imagine, yourself knowing that you accomplished climbing a mountain all on your own, that everything you did in the past lead up to this very…

I have always dreamed of the day where I would be tearing through the skies at seven hundred knots in an F-16. I have always wondered how incredible it must feel to soar above a massive sea clouds thousands of feet in the air. I have always wanted to look around and see three more jet blasting through the sky alongside me and hear nothing but radio chatter and the muffled roar of the engine. I have always felt that I was born to become an outstanding soldier and a stellar pilot. I have a passion…

to its record breaking height. This height is what attracts many climbers, qualified or incapable, to tackle the challenges the mountain brings. Jon Krakauer was one of many people to take the challenge, and reported his journey in his book, Into Thin Air. Along his adventure among his guided group, Krakauer witnesses the deaths of others and brings the question of who is responsible for these tragedies. It may be easy to point fingers at possible culprit, but ultimately the death of an…

As I read Into Thin Air, I realized how grateful I am to have so many people I care about still in my life. I haven’t lost anyone that I was extremely close to and I don’t know what I would do if I did. The only person in my life that died was my aunt, and I was pretty young and didn’t know her very well. She lived in Minnesota and I didn’t see her very often so her death didn’t really impact me, as awful as that sounds. In this book, there are so many people that die and I can’t even imagine…

sacrifice themselves merely based on a passionate aspiration. An individual’s ability for self-sacrifice in life threatening conditions is often based on ones desires to achieve self-fulfillment. As portrayed throughout Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into Thin Air, climbers learn the importance of self-sacrifice in order to reach their goals and maintain the well being of others, but soon realize their capacity for self-sacrifice is greatly hindered due to conditions of the climb. This can be shown…

During the seventy-three years since Amelia Earhart had “vanished into thin air” many theories have emerged about how and where the famous pilot died. According to some researchers, new discoveries on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro may bring us closer than ever to the discovery of what might’ve happened to her. Amelia Earhart’s daring flight around the world was cut short when her plane, the Lockeed Electra, disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on June 2, 1937. Shortly after,…

left for dead in an unforgiving landscape? For Beck and Rob, they had to make these choices, see these things. They will never forget how and when they went wrong. This is one very well-known form of conflict. This type was seen in the book “Into Thin Air”. Rob Hall, the leader of the Adventure Consultants team and Beck Weathers that was one Rob’s team going up the the summit of everest. Them against them, Rob had troubles coming up with an exact turnaround time and expressing that time to his…

Preventable Deaths “Into thin air” by Jon Krakauer is a personal account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. One out of every four climbers, dies on the mountain, according to Jon Krakauer's book. Fifteen climbers died in the 1996 climbing season alone. With odds such as these, who should decide who is allowed to climb the mountain, and who is not? Should an individual decide they can do it, all on their own? I think it should be a chain of decisions, between several people, and groups of people.…

Fear and regret can affect an individual’s mind to such an extent where they can make life-altering choices. In the non-fictional novel, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer faces difficulty assisting not only himself but others through his journey on Mount Everest. He experiences many different stages of regret and fear on his expedition; first being, the lack of oxygen. This lead to Jon’s fear of his possible fate and the remorse of his actions due to deficiency of trust in his peers and the lost the…

In the novel “Into Thin Air” the author Jon Krakauer determines the incomprehensive force of nature that takes life indiscriminately. The low levels of oxygen above 25,000 feet, sub-zero temperatures, harsh solar radiation, and powerful storms are all the examples of natural obstacles that Krakauer himself and his team had to overcome to complete the expedition. In the novel, “Beidleman, Groom, the two Sherpas, and the seven clients staggered blindly around in the storm, growing ever more…