A review by herrapossu
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

adventurous informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

I learned a lot about mountaineering and what led to the disaster on Sagarmatha (Nepalese name for Mt. Everest). Although, as noted in the book, the "disaster" does not even stand out in the statistics for deaths on the mountain. Most of the time I was eager to read more; however, some parts of the book were long sections describing people and their previous feats. The actual story of the events was probably less than half the book.