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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

27 reviews

hstcrow's review

adventurous challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

3.0

Wow, this was definitely a thrilling read and very different from what I normally gravitate towards. It was also devastating. I can’t even begin to imagine what it is like to climb Everest and to have been on the mountain at this time, but reading this I kept being struck by how hopelessly pointless this is. So many people died or were injured beyond repair for what?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Excrement, and Vomit

Minor: Cursing and Alcohol

hollydyer328's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

A well-reported story of a tragedy on Mt. Everest; amazing that Krakauer lived to tell the tale. I can’t say I’m surprised by the turnout; I feel like you’re asking for it if you try to climb and summit Everest. Probably the most surprising thing is the whole industry and profit around expeditions—if you dream of climbing Everest, you better be able to drop $65K+ to do it. The story was confusing to follow at times; there’s a lot of people involved and he switches between first name and last name interchangeably. He’ll also recount stories of previous expeditions that took me out of the primary one. Needed to re-listen to the last 25-30% to make sure I knew what happened.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Vomit, and Medical content

mondovertigo's review

dark reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Excrement and Vomit

madeline_p4's review against another edition

adventurous informative fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Gore, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, and Grief

intrepidkale's review against another edition

adventurous tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Vomit

nadiajohnsonbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

I was already a fan of Krakauer, having been at various times in my life obsessed with Into the Wild and Under the Banner of Heaven.

Well, this time he really broke me. I can't stop thinking about Mount Everest and about high altitude disasters.

What Krakauer and his companions endured in 1996 is one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. His reflections of his own grief, the other survivors' reactions, the true misery that they endured during the disaster...I'm honestly haunted by it. It had me sobbing.

Krakauer was clearly deep in his own trauma when he wrote it, and you can tell.

My respect for him as a journalist, a mountaineer, and a human being is higher than it's ever been.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Excrement, and Colonisation

Minor: Deadnaming, Drug use, Vomit, and Alcohol

jillianlovesbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.75

WOW and OUCH
that book was a little intense but such an important read 
it hit me right in the gut 
loved it tho!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Gore, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Medical trauma

the very end of the book when he talks about that girls death and how he never looked back to help her really just punched me in the gut because that pain has to be terrible

albon's review against another edition

adventurous dark

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Vomit, Medical content, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use and Car accident

mollyb13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

In a 'perfect storm' type of situation, journalist Jon Krakauer found himself in the middle of one of the deadliest events in Everest's climbing history. He was in an extremely unique position to use his writing skills to cover the expedition and successfully interview a majority of the people involved after the event. I can't imagine the pain of being tied to this event in any sort of manner - and I'm glad that he turned his original Outside article into a full book. He seemed to have a good balance of telling his own story in a vulnerable way while also reporting the situation in a factual manner. This one is going to stick with me for quite a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit

hellavaral's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Blood, Vomit, and Medical content