Edallia's review
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
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Anyway, Amazon tells me I would like "Into the Wild". But I don't know what it's about and I'm too damn lazy to actually open up google and find out. Have you read it? (If not, do not despair! I will just get off my lazy ass and actually google it!)
Also: OMG WHAT CONTROVERSY??
Edallia's review
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
Edallia's review
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I first picked this up because my partner couldn't put it down, and I was out of reading material. (This happens frequently.) She said it was very interesting, but I thought she was saying this because she harbors a secret desire to climb Mount Everest herself.
"Into Thin Air" is a first-person account of what one man saw and experienced during the disastrous 1996 Everest season. Jon Krakauer (of "Into The Wild" fame) was asked to take part in a commercial expedition to Everest with a view towards writing an article about such expeditions. Things turned out very differently when mistakes in judgment were made, bad weather struck, and rescue was rendered virtually impossible.
I enjoyed Krakauer's concise, detailed, blunt writing style (it's rather like reading an extended magazine article) and his extensive research into the history of mountain-climbing and Everest expeditions. This is not a subject I knew much about prior to reading this book, and it was...more
"Into Thin Air" is a first-person account of what one man saw and experienced during the disastrous 1996 Everest season. Jon Krakauer (of "Into The Wild" fame) was asked to take part in a commercial expedition to Everest with a view towards writing an article about such expeditions. Things turned out very differently when mistakes in judgment were made, bad weather struck, and rescue was rendered virtually impossible.
I enjoyed Krakauer's concise, detailed, blunt writing style (it's rather like reading an extended magazine article) and his extensive research into the history of mountain-climbing and Everest expeditions. This is not a subject I knew much about prior to reading this book, and it was...more
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LOOK I'M ADDING A COMMENT ISN'T THIS COOL??Anyway, Amazon tells me I would like "Into the Wild". But I don't know what it's about and I'm too damn lazy to actually open up google and find out. Have you read it? (If not, do not despair! I will just get off my lazy ass and actually google it!)
Also: OMG WHAT CONTROVERSY??