A review by manikahemmerixh
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

5.0

Gut wrenching, honestly. You couldn't pay me to climb Mt. Everest (let alone would I pay the many tens of thousands that it costs to try to best the mountain) but even almost 30 years after publication, this is an insightful peer into the minds of those who do dare to climb to the top of the world, and the harrowing experience that awaits them there. I can only barely imagine what it must have felt like to be there on top of that mountain, delirious, freezing, scared, and knowing all the while that there were others worse off than you. Nor can I imagine what it must have been like to write and publish this book afterwards.