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Analysis Of Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer

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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

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Jon Krakauer is looking to fulfill a childhood ambition by finally climbing Mount Everest. After being assigned to write a brief piece about the mountain for Outside magazine, Krakauer manages to convince his bosses to fund a full-fledged expedition to the top. Bold. Krakauer is climbing with Adventure Consultants, a commercial group led by experienced climber Rob Hall. The journalist befriends several members of his group, such as Andy Harris, a guide, and Doug Hansen, a fellow client and postal worker back home.

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As the team ascends to camp one they face there first route or area known as Icefall. It’s given this name due too a large glacier that moves everyday, it also forces the climbers to use dangerous roping techniques that cause them to ascend parts of Icefall independently and not roped to other climbers for support. Once at the top of camp one, Krakauer tries to help one of the sherpa move some equipment up quickly realizes that all physical labor is a heavy and difficult burden on the body. Krakauer later summits to camp two and finds that his body is even weaker the higher up he is. At camp three the winds are very high and temperatures are below zero at night.

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Many of them are inexperienced and would undoubtedly never make it to the top without a guide. The one unifying characteristic shared by all of the climbers is that they have money—enough to shell out $65,000 a piece for their shot at the top. Krakauer spends long chapters giving his best, most educated guesses about why climbers made certain decisions, and what happened to the people who disappeared. This is an exercise that must result in major frustration, as no one can be entirely sure what took place. Many mistakes later, Krakauer manages to piece together an outline of what happened to whom and when during the climb, but the questions he struggles with in almost every situation are "why" and "how".

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, it is important to note that the characters portrayed in this book are real people. The unique conditions and the weather of the setting forced the climbers to make choices that they could not have made in a different situation. The tough choices made by the climbers and the setting influenced the result of the story. Krakauer’s tone for the most part is respectful toward the guides and climbers, and he narrates as objectively as possible, while including his own concerns and doubts. His tone in the beginning expresses excitement and nervousness, but later turns into

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In the book Into Thin Air the location of the story is Mt. Everest, the world's tallest mountain. The disaster happened in late April and mid-May 1996. Jon Krakauer and his team climb up all 4 base camps before reaching base camp 4 and hiking to the summit. All the climbers were in awe that one minute the skies are clear, and then the next minute the skies are stormy and deadly. I would think they could tell that a storm was coming from being that high up, but Mt. Everest

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All in all, the author manages to balance out his appeal to emotion with the intense sequences of his journey up Mount Everest. Describing how sad he was when he saw his teammates buried in the snow ice cold, and also rescuing one of his teammates, only to see him die a few minutes later from severe

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Kayleigh McFarland English IH Mrs. Walker March 6th, 2018 February Outside Reading: Analytical Question: What is the argument in Jon Krakauer 's Into Thin Air? Jon Krakauer 's Into Thin Air details the story of the disaster in which several climbers died on the slopes of Mt. Everest in 1996, as witnessed by Jon Krakauer. Krakauer recounts the events of the ill-fated expeditions from his own personal experience and makes several suggestions as to what may have led to the climbers being caught high on the mountain when they might have turned back and remained safe. He also examines his own role in the events as they unfolded, and how much he himself is to blame for what happened.

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They were exhausted and desperate to reach the top. “Not wanting to jeopardize their ascent by stopping to assist him{Paljor}, the Japanese continued climbing... we were too tired to help…”(Krakauer 253) The team of Japanese climbers that continued climbing were described as, “overcome by summit fever. ”(Krakauer 252).

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On the other hand, as the only survivor of a plane crash in episode two of Bull “The Woman in 8D” the pilot is primarily blamed for all of the deaths. During the crash, Captain Taylor Mathison is blamed for crashing the plane she is piloting when all passengers are killed and Mathison loses her memory due to head trauma, causing the case to be extremely more difficult to settle the case. Similarly, in Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, he depicts his experience climbing Mount Everest and surviving the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, where eight climbers died and several others were stranded by storms. Being a relatively new climber, many denounced Krakauer for his criticisms of some of the professionals as well as the fact that he survived when several others did not, despite having more

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Krakauer was prepared for his trip, planning when he was going to get fresh supplies, and who was going to get him to where he needed to be and when. Chris would never think about having supplies dropped off to him on his journey due to his beliefs on being self reliant, as Krakauer explains “Since (Chris) had announced to his parents that, on principle, he would no longer give or accept gifts” (20). Chris’s and Krakauer both had gone to Alaska, but they had vastly different trips and goals of what they were doing there. Krakauer planned his trip to summit Devils Thumb, while Chris improvised his journey and relied on himself or chance of others charity for getting the necessary means of

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When Krakauer reached the summit, he noticed the clouds changing; a storm was coming, and he needed to descend as fast as he could (pg. 242). As many calamities there were while ascending Everest, descending proved to be the primary

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