Fascinating book! Not one you read in one sitting though, as it's full of names and details to remember. But it never became dry, and I found myself thinking about it even when away from it - that's usually a good sign.I know nothing about climbing, but reading about Jon Krakauer's experiences I can...
I understand that this was a harrowing adventure but the retelling was boring and had so much irrelevant historical information that it made it difficult to read. The action doesn't even happen until 200 pages into the story which leaves only 101 pages about the disaster itself. Yes the disaster w...
Krakauer may not have invented the mountain-climbing book but he certainly revived the genre. this book was followed not just by "responses" from some of the people named in the Mt. Everest Disaster (the Russian climber, the almost-dead Beck), it led to such works as "Dark Summit" "High Crimes" etc ...
I got this book intending to give it to my brother, then I started it. I couldn't put it down.Added 12/19/12 - Engrossing. Krakauer took some heat (too put it mildly) for his article. Also deals with the question of reporter and subject. Krakauer blames himself as much as anyone, so it does feel...
So you get to the highest spot on earth and THEN WHAT?!? Do you get superpowers? Do you find enlightment? Does it fix your marriage? Could you not have guessed any of the answers to these questions before you lose a couple of appendages to frostbite and clamber over a few corpses? Honestly, Everest ...
A very emotionally charged book. This is a factual account of the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster where 9 climbers - including two experienced guides - lost their lives. Krakauer had been sent by Outside Magazine as a reporter to cover one of the expeditions. This is not only a personal account, but ...
Along with Joe Simpson's 'Touching the void', it's a gripping book about disasters on mountains. I was once officially consumed by books about mountaineering and climbing. Part of the fascination is wondering what possesses people to do it. Read 'em. You will not regret it.
About a year ago, I read a book called Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth which was basically all about finding the basement of the earth. A group of cave divers descended into a seemingly bottomless cave full of all sorts of unknown danger. For some reason after finis...
The author was sent out by a magazine to chronicle the events surrounding various expeditions to climb Mt. Everest in 1996. I was expecting this book to read like a diary, but it also refers to earlier mountaineering events along the way. I learned quite a few facts about upper level mountain climbi...
Your heart will ache for the people on this fateful journey. You'll feel some anger too for the mistakes that were made, and you'll grieve for what was lost. You will never forget this story, and it's right that we should never forget.
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