Into Thin Air

In the book, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer who is both the author and the narrator discussed about his expedition to Mount Everest. Before talking about his expedition, he informs the readers about the history of Mount Everest and its climbers. Then while he talks about his specific journey to Everest, he descriptively mentions about all his obstacles, his guides, the Sherpas, his clients, and much more with as much sensory details as possible. So because of the descriptive writing that the author…

It was a cold dark night in may of 1996 8 people were caught in a blizzard and half died on the mountain during summit attempts. Only half of the team made it out alive. The colder it got the worse it got for the worse it got for the people on top of the mountain on that night. The weather on the Mount Everest started off well. Within the space of five minutes, it changed from really a good day with a little bit of winde to desperate conditions. It was horrible, with winds up to 80 miles…

In the book Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, the Mt. Everest disaster is told from the personal account of Jon Krakauer. There are many causes and effects that led to the Mt. Everest disaster. Many of the causes could have been prevented had they been more prepared for a disaster to happen. One major cause of the disaster is storm it limited visibility so that people could not see their way back to camp. Another cause was that the guides assigned to help the inexperienced climb the mountain let…

Magazine story writer and novel author, Jon Krakauer, is on a notorious adventure to climb the legendary Mount Everest.While examining and analysing “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer from a reader response perspective allows the reader to bring personal traits, memories and experiences to the text, forces the reader to look past the words in search for a deeper meaning, and it allows readers to see different perspectives of others while reading. It is fairly easy to connect with Krakauer on a…

Piers Paul read, and Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, exemplify survival, hope, and perseverance as the characters struggle against the elements. Survival is inspired by hope, and hope is derived from people and objectives. Perseverance is what takes people the extra mile to achieve the goal of survival. Hope is what motivates people to survive, and inspires action. Sometimes hope can be misplaced and be consequential, as discovered by the characters in Alive and Into Thin Air. In Alive the hope…

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…

Dumbledore once said “It is our choices that show what we truly are far more than our abilities.” This quote shows that no matter how talented people are their decisions will reveal their characters. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer showcases the significance of decisions in three ways. First, according to Mr. Krakauer, choices reveal a person’s true nature. Second, a simple decision at one point in time can determine an individual’s fate. Third, a person’s choice can have a lasting psychological…

on the edge of their seat. In his brilliant novels Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, Krakauer seamlessly evokes emotion in his writing, causing the reader to picture themselves in the midst of a hellacious battle against Nature, life’s immovable object. Krakauer portrays himself as the journalist who seems critical of his peers and wants to stay out of the picture, but is seemingly thrust into the spotlight in Into Thin Air. This situation proves his love for adventure and quenches the hunger…

Written in 1996 and published in 1997 Jon Krakauer - 1954-present 20th century - Modern writing with some uses of slang in the text Key Quotations: “Morality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Sooner or later the divestiture of such a privileged innocence was inevitable, but when it finally happened the show was magnified by the sheer superfluity of the carnage” (Krakauer, 283). Krakauer’s experience at Everest was more than just an experience…

Mount Everest Imagine: You are on Mount Everest, Nepal. You are hanging over what looks like a never ending abyss after falling through the treacherous paper thin ice covering the drop into the chasm were no light can penetrate. You were saved by knowing the terrain and weather patterns of Mount Everest, the immense amounts of snow, the wind, hidden chasms, ice everywhere, and etc. You made tools and clothes to keep you from falling off from ice and up to 175 mile per hour wind speeds…