Into Thin Air

The main theme of Jon Krakauer’s novel “Into Thin Air” centers on the business of guided expeditions surrounding Mount Everest. The market for guiding expeditions “has multiplied at an astonishing rate” (Krakauer, 25) ever since Dick Bass, who garnered very limited mountaineering expedition “was ushered to the top of Everest” (24) primarily due to his wealth. In stating such an example, Krakauer believes that the business of guiding wealthy individuals up to the summit ultimately…

believe that climbing the mountain Everest would consume a lot of physical strengths. It is absolutely true that it acquires a tremendous amount of strength. However, climbing the Everest need more than physical endurance. As reading through ‘Into Thin Air’, the prejudices of climbing the Everest had collapsed. Thinking about Everest, people need enough physical strength to endure all the pains during climbing, but the prerequisites of climbing were beyond that. For instance, due to high…

We started preparing to leave for Everest on June, 2015, even though we were delayed for preparing and for the season. After several checks, however, we found a perfect weather window for summer, with few monsoons from India. So we scheduled the real ascent the first week of July, and two weeks after we sold most of what we had, and put in boxes all the gear we already had. Summiting Everest depends on a number of factors, and any experienced climber knows this. Because Everest is the tallest…

We’ve packed our bags and were ready to go climb Mount Everest! Wait… What? There are a plethora of safety precautions that inexperienced climbers don’t think about before going to go climb this magnificent mountain. But wait, aren’t there helicopters to come rescue you if something should happen? Think again. Helicopter pilots should not have to risk their lives for people who put themselves in danger. No Experience I don’t know why, and I don’t know how, but I am going to climb…

In 1996 mount Everest made its mark on history again with yet another large disaster. The night of May 10 eight climbers lost their lives to Everest in a 12 hour period. With a total of 12 deaths in total that month. At the end of april 1996 three expeditions set out to summit Everest with a total of 33 climbers on the mountain, on may 10 nineteen climbers were trapped in the death zone (above 8 000 meters) that night of May tenth. In extreme cases like the ‘96 disaster people are presented with…

in the fictional book written by homer, The odyssey, & in the nonfiction book written by krakauer, Into Thin Air, the main characters experience extreme guilt. Both characters experience different types of guilt for different reasons, like withholding information or not helping someone in need. In some ways the men’s experiences are similar. Both men lose their companions large numbers & fight for their lives against the elements of nature. On the other hand, in some other ways they are very…

precisely the same height as the pressurized jet bearing me through the heavens. That I proposed to climb to the cruising altitude of an Airbus 300 jetliner struck me, at that moment, as preposterous, or worse,” (Kraukauer, 32, 1997). In the story, Into Thin Air, the narrator, Jon Krakauer, discussed his and his team’s plight and account as they ascended Mount Everest, which is the tallest mountain on Earth. From his perspective, he blamed Anatoli Boukreev for all the negativity and deaths that…

In early May 1996, two teams of commercial expeditions led by highly experiences climbers attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Out of the 23 mountaineers that attempted the summit, only 18 survived. Of the five that perished, two men, Rob Hall and Scott Fischer, extremely skilled climbing leaders with previous experience reaching the summit, did not make the decent. Since that deadly expedition in 1996, many, including the survivors of that climb, have attempted to explain why the…

“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill, the trick is to get back down alive.” This quote from Jon Krakauer captures the gripping story of Into Thin Air which summarizes Jon’s emotional and physical journey while climbing the tallest mountain in the world. Through extensive climbing and note-taking Jon is able to share his experiences and tell a riveting story about his life or death experience from the perspective of a reporter which provides an amazing point of view…

In the book 'Into Thin Air', by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer tells his tale of climbing the tallest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest. He was given this opportunity by Outside Magazine which he worked for. At first he was just supposed to write an article about the commercialism on the massive mountain. He later decides he actually wants to climb it. Little did Krakauer know he was about to take on the most disastrous trip up Everest ever. There was a large amount of money that needed to be paid to…