Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air

Words: 670
Pages: 3

Disaster of 1996 Into Thin Air was partially written upon a mountain, with an elevation of 29,029 feet, in May of 1996. It shows just a peek at the world of mountaineering and leaves you questioning why people are desperate to experience climbing the worlds tallest peak in the world. Among the people scaling Everest that year, was American writer, and mountaineer, Jon Krakauer. Krakauer has written several books, including Into Thin Air which depicts his journey in 1996 on Mount Everest. His main intent of writing was to purge the thought of Everest from his brain, letting loose what happened while in Nepal. Krakauer narrates this adventure and gave specific insight on one of the worst Mount Everest catastrophes in history.
The novel begins at the summit of Mount Everest, where Jon relishes on having survived the journey to the peak. Many have said that getting up the mountain is easy and only half the battle,while getting down alive is the hard part. Jon Krakauer was sought out by Outside magazine, they wanted him to cover an expedition to Everest. Krakauer was no stranger to the outdoors, having climbed since he was a young boy with his father. Originally Jon was supposed to climb
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In the previous year, Hall had several failures and needed all the success he could get in 1996. The disregard of the turnaround time indicates that instead of keeping his clients safe, Rob Hall just wanted success and for the story being written about the expedition to be a story of triumph not failure. A monstrous storm invaded the airspace of the mountain in 1996 and lead to the deaths of eight people. Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air expands our knowledge on the 1996 tragedy, letting him purge the thoughts of Everest into a book and let the audience’s hungry minds grasp just a piece of the fatal expedition of 1996 on Mount