Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is a book that explains what happened in the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster in a mostly first-person point of view. It starts when Krakauer was sent to Nepal by Outside magazine to write about a guided ascent of Mount Everest. He joins the group called Adventure Consultants. It is led by Rob Hall and is intended to guide the climbers up from base camp to the top of Mount Everest. They spend a few weeks at base camp and make a few trips to the other camps to speed up the adjusting to the environment. It was in May when they actually started the climb. Throughout the ascent, Jon Krakauer makes sure to study the other clients and guides. Most of the climbers have trouble adapting to the air and are easily getting tired. How they experienced it separated …show more content…
Members of Krakauer’s group reach the summit at 4:00 pm and so the turnaround order was not enforced.
A storm starts later that day, and Krakauer was caught around the edge of it. He still managed to reach camp 4 ahead of most of his team. Then, Hansen and Hall get stranded and Hansen runs out of extra oxygen and could not continue. Some other group gets caught in the storm and later, an assistant guide from another group rescues all except for 2 of them, which were marked as dead, but not confirmed. Fischer also gets stranded and then dies. Hansen dies and Hall’s group member attempts to save Hall, but could not climb high enough. An assistant guide dies attempting to save Hall and Hansen.
Beck Weathers, 1 of the 2 that was previously thought dead, comes back to camp. He then gets medical attention and had a few amputations and surgeries. Throughout the entire climb, 12 people died on Mount Everest. The event left Krakauer mentally scarred with “survivor’s