Into Thin Air (edit title)

• Rated 4 stars

“This was a really good book. It was a little boring in the beginning but then when the storm came it got really good. It made me realize how bad the conditions are on Everest! If your looking for a non-boring nonfiction book, READ THIS!”

• Rated 5 stars

“At first I thought the book was very boring, but then I started to love reading it. I felt like I didn't want to put it down for even one second of the day.”

• Rated 0 stars

“this is one of the few books my bro actully read and enjoyed (besides harry potter!) I hope its good!!!!”

• Rated 4 stars

“A harrowing yet unforgettable personal account on man's efforts to subdue the force of Nature. This book sent chills down my spine and at some point made me shiver due to the exquisitely detailed description on the situation. This is indeed a powerful and smartly written memoir.

I never climbed any mountain (and not plan to do it anytime soon) but this book still found a way to engage with me. Man is and will never be satisfied, consequently the drive to overcome all odds - no matter what it takes - will remain the biggest dream of all. Sometimes, it could ended up in a mighty, appalling disaster like the one told in this memoir. But if man does not have a longing to push himself beyond his limit, most (if not all) important discoveries and achievements would not have been realized.

I think that Krakauer also did a good job in narrating the sequences and the actors involved. The courage, the camaraderie, the arrogance, the despair, the erroneous judgment, and most of all, the feeling of helplessness, felt just so realistic and terrifyingly near. Definitely not for the faint of heart.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Really llike it, never thought I would care about mountain climbing but raised some very moral / ethical issues. Great book club discussion.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Into Thin Air is a gripping tale of living on the edge of life and having the burden of guilt on your back. Even the story focuses on Krakauer's life changing hike up mt. Everest, the more crucial side of the story are what happens to Krakauer AFTER the fact. He notes that the guilt he has of being alive while he watched his teammates die made him write this book. It doesn't take a near death experience to note these ideas, but Krakauer really makes us realize that life and death are nothing to joke about.”

• Rated 0 stars

“I read this book over the summer for Literature class. Krakauer is a spectacular journalist. I had also read his book about soldier/football-player Pat Tillman, who sacrificed his NFL career in order to serve his country in the military. Nontheless, this book was excellent as well. Krakauer writes about his experience climbing Mount Everest, an experience that most people find eurphoric and incredible, but one that Krakauer resented. The entire time, he notes, he was just trying to survive and barely made it. He talked about the extreme phyiscal pain that people had to endure in order to make it by. He then connected this physical trauma to how many people around the world have to suffer through dilemmas that they cannot seem to comprehend. He doesn't like Mount Everest, since he lost so many of his friends on this expedition, and he begs people not to voluntarily endure through so much.”

• Rated 4 stars

“I followed this tragedy as it unfolded and was taken in by this first hand account.”

• Rated 3 stars

“This is another one that I had to read for English class. It was like Into The Wild, it was a nonfiction of course, and it was a thrilling adventure of getting down the mountain before the storm reached, and what was the after effects.”

• Rated 5 stars

“learned a lot about mountaineering”