Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest

➽ [Reading] ➿ Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster By Jon Krakauer ➲ – Hostingencolombia.co National BestsellerA bank of clouds was assembling on the not so distant horizon but journalist mountaineer Jon Krakauer standing on the summit of Mt Everest saw nothing that suggested that a murderouNational BestsellerA bank of clouds was assembling on the not so distant horizon but journalist mountaineer Jon Krakauer standing on the summit of Mt Everest saw nothing that suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down He was wrong The storm which claimed five lives and left countlessincluding Krakauer s in guilt ridden disarray would also provide the impetus for Into Thin Air Krakauer s epic account of the May disasterBy writing Into Thin Air Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful uestions that still surround the event He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition Krakauer s highly personal inuiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong But for Krakauer himself further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber s death Clearly Kra.