![]() Pictures of climbers queueing to reach the summit hit headlines again in 2019. Krakauer lingers on the commercialisation of Everest. ![]() Now there are concerns as well for the environmental damage climbing does to the region. He also gives some insight into what Everest signifies within the climbing community. He explains what brings them each to Everest, and why. Krakauer turns his journalistic lens on himself and his fellow climbers. The first half of the book is a travelogue. He, like the rest of the expedition party, is a climbing fanatic – and of this mountain in particular. Krakauer thinks he’s won the lottery when he gets a shot at climbing Everest for a magazine feature. Like Into the Wild, Krakauer’s documentary-style written account of the disappearance of Chris McCandless, this is a detailed reconstruction of events that really happened. And given how things turned out on this particular climb in 1996, it’s a haunting combination of memoir and memorial. ![]() It shines a light on the obsession that drives climbers of all abilities. The beautiful, remote world he describes in Into Thin Air is vivid and compelling. ![]() ![]() When journalist Jon Krakauer joins a guided Everest climb he has no inkling of the tragedy that lies ahead. Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer’s eye-witness account of the 1996 Everest disaster – reveals the dark legacy of the world’s highest mountain. ![]()
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