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Author: Jon Krakauer ID: B0000544YH

Into Thin Air is the definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Eiger Dreams and Into the Wild. On assignment for Outside magazine, Krakauer, an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas to report on the growing commercialization of the planet’s highest mountain. Everest has always been a dangerous mountain. From the first British expeditions in the 1920s until 1996, one climber has died for ever 4 who have attained the summit. This shocking death toll has not put a damper on the burgeoning business of guided ascents, however, in which amateur alpinists with alarmingly disparate skills are ushered up the mountain for a $65,000 fee. To ascend into the thin, frigid air above 26,000 feet – the cruising altitude of a commercial jetliner – is an inherently irrational act. The environment is unimaginably harsh, the margin for error miniscule. Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people – including himself – to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concern of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense. Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer’s frank eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 5 hours and 59 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: AbridgedPublisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell AudioAudible.com Release Date: December 15, 1999Language: EnglishID: B0000544YH Best Sellers Rank: #93 in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Mountaineering #131 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Nonfiction > Sports & Recreation #337 in Books > Travel > Travel Writing
By and large, the negative reviews posted here have little to do with the quality of this book and almost everything to do with the presumed character of the writer, Jon Krakauer. Similarly, those who dislike Krakauer’s Into the Wild tend to focus their judgment of the book’s worth on their own feelings regarding the essay’s subject, Christopher McCandless, the young man who traveled the Western United States and Mexico for two years before perishing in Alaska. I read Krakauer differently. I am not interested in Krakauer’s liberal politics, his emotional instability, and variable maturity. I am not interested in whether he portrays the absolute truth in his account of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster for the simple fact that I don’t believe the truth can be told. Writing is a very poor substitute for a frostbitten finger or a hypoxic head. All we have is Krakauer’s writing, so let’s look at what he does as a writer.

Krakauer is a sensationalist journalist, and since he reports on dangerous and near-death experiences regularly, he really can’t help being grandiose and spectacular. The subject of his writing demands that he ratchet up the emotional power of his style and word choice. And let’s be honest–don’t we, as readers, demand it of him as well? Don’t we want a voyeuristic and graphic account, where the size, the shape, and the smell of death seem to lift from the pages? Who wants to read about a mountain climbing disaster sans the emotion and the ego it takes to put one’s self unnecessarily into such perilous situations?
Having never understood why people climb mountains, and after seeing Beck Weathers on
television last year, I bought INTO THIN AIR in order to gain more insight. Krakauer delivered.

Have some time on your hands, because once you begin reading Jon’s story depicting the turn of
events throughout his journey on Everest in the Spring of ’96, you won’t be able to stop reading until you’ve read the last word in his book. This account of summitting Everest is a page turner even though the outcome is old news. It will leave you wanting to know more about other attempts made
on Everest, both failed and successful.

For those who don’t understand why on earth anyone would want to do something as dangerous as
climbing "Into Thin Air" on rock and ice … this book answers that curiosity. Because Jon introduces his readers to the backgrounds and personalities of the main characters in his book, we can better comprehend the different reasons people spend thousands of dollars and two or more months of their lives in "hell" on a mountain – freezing and injured – ‘just to get to the top’. We learn through Krakauer why they continue their ascent even though the conditions are pure torture and more life threatening with each step; why they don’t give it up once they’ve lost feeling in their extremities, separated their ribs, lost their vision, can no longer breathe due to oxygen depleted air, why they don’t turn back even when they see the dead who’ve attempted to reach the summit on prior expeditions. You’ll understand because of Krakauer’s talent as a writer … his ability to replay his emotions, his thoughts, his experiences, and his opinions through writing.

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