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A review by futurememory
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
5.0
Let's be clear here - I have absolutely zero desire to climb any sort of mountain, let alone Everest.
However, each and every spring, I get swept up in the Everest season and reading about people's attempts to push to the summit. I have a horrific fascination and fixation with Everest, and a morbid curiosity about the people that would die just to say they climbed a big rock.
Into Thin Air is a book that gave me not one, but two nights of nightmares. The horrors in its pages are undeniable. It's a fast, fascinating read that's an exercise in the butterfly effect. How little decisions made by each individual can end in a catastrophic tragedy. And how humankind will always have to bow towards nature's extremes.
However, each and every spring, I get swept up in the Everest season and reading about people's attempts to push to the summit. I have a horrific fascination and fixation with Everest, and a morbid curiosity about the people that would die just to say they climbed a big rock.
Into Thin Air is a book that gave me not one, but two nights of nightmares. The horrors in its pages are undeniable. It's a fast, fascinating read that's an exercise in the butterfly effect. How little decisions made by each individual can end in a catastrophic tragedy. And how humankind will always have to bow towards nature's extremes.