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Analysis Of Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer

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Imagine having to put your life in the hands of someone you just met. In the book “Into Thin Air” written by Jon Krakauer, Jon writes about his story of the disaster that occurred on Mt. Everest the day of May 10, 1996. On this expedition, Jon’s life was put in the the hands of Rob Hall, his expedition leader, a day before he started his ascent to the summit. Paying thousands of dollars to Hall, Jon relied on Hall to make the right decisions on Everest to keep him safe. While this was the case in the end for Jon, it wasn’t the same for five of his fellow climbers. Jon and his fellow climbers paid Hall a large amount of money in exchange for their safety that they did not receive. Hall was responsible for the deaths on Mt. Everest. Before the expedition even began, Jon and the other climbers were warned of the dangers of …show more content…

However, Hall ensured that the possibility of death was unlikely and everyone would be safe under his watch. This put more pressure onto Hall, as he now had to live up to his own words. Jon writes,“But trust in one’s partners is a luxury denied in those who sign on as clients on a guided ascent; one must put one’s faith in the guide instead” (Krakauer 38). The key to success in climbing is to be comfortable with the people you are climbing with, as sometimes it can be a case of life or death; as it was on May 10, 1996. Over the next few weeks, Rob Hall’s clients had grown to trust him and his decisions. Had Hall stuck to his original plans before summiting Everest, then everyone may have still been alive today. Instead, his sympathy got in the way and lead him to become lenient with his strict decisions. Something as small as staying back a few minutes resulted in the death of six climbers; including Hall himself. It wasn’t just the trust the campers gave to Hall that

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The Roots and Influences of Jon Krakauer’s Literature “The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road” - Jon Krakauer. This statement derives from Krakauer's thoughts and takeaways from his disastrous climb up Mount Everest that completely upset Krakauer's viewpoint of his lifelong dream, to climb the tallest mountain in the world. Krakauer recounts his journey while scaling Mount Everest in his non-fictional book Into Thin Air, that supports his statement of why the climb is not a Yellow Brick Road. Jon Krakauer's countless mountaineering adventures are the foundation of most of his books, including Into Thin Air and Into the Wild. Krakauer also uses religion as a base of his book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.

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Earthquakes caused the most deaths. John is a journalist. In the book, John alleges that essential safety methods adopted over the years by experienced guides on Everest are sometimes compromised by the competition between rival guiding agencies to get their clients to the summit. John realized that safety was the most important to all the climbers. John was scared to go back he wanted to get to the top and it ended up as a catastrophe.

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He left the summit early, abandoning his clients. That day, many people died. They didn’t have their guide, and may have had a chance had their guide stayed with them. Another guide, Robert Hall, got himself, and a client,

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The hard stress of being a journalist for the mountain guides like Scott Fischer and Rob Hall. The death and the major bad injury couldn’t have happened if Jon Krakuaer had made smart decisions.    Jon Krakuaer had more experience on climbing mountain in Rob Hall team. After he had climbed a few mountains before he got the push that he should climb MT. Everest.

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To survive in the literally thin air at the top of Everest, which is at a lower atmospheric pressure than sea level because of the higher elevation, the Adventure Consultant guides and clients used bottled oxygen to provide a simulated lower pressure and give more oxygen to its user. The clients and guides all trekked up Everest into air with less oxygen by choice, but it affected everyone in ways almost insane to ordinary people breathing ordinary air. Few, if none of them realized that more than half of them who went up wouldn’t come down. Some causes of the disaster were multiple kinds of altitude sickness and lowered oxygen that impaired judgement, which was a chain reaction that lead to the deaths of even more people. But it was also arrogance and the overconfident, zealous manner that the mountain was approached and climbed that lead to the disaster as well.

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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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This would later caused Rob’s reputation to be put at stake. In addition to this it would later have an effect on some of the decisions Rob Hall would make at a high altitude where you are not at your best state of thinking. Krauker states in his book Into Thin Air, “The Outside piece was as accurate as I could make it under the circumstances, but my deadline had been unforgiving, the sequence of events had been frustratingly complex, and the memory of the survivors had been badly disorientated by exhaustion, oxygen depletion, and shock.” This further explains to us how simple decisions like words used to describe an event was affected by the conditions on Everest, it also gives us a first hand comparison of how Krauker would normally write without being under these

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According to “Out Too Far,” Santiago needs to widen his view of success and failure to lessen the burden he places on his own shoulders (Cools and Sanders 89). Krakauer reiterates this in the recalling of Hall’s journey. Krakauer idolizes Hall as we can tell from his descriptions, explanations, and retelling of Hall’s experiences. He explains how Hall, and his partner Gary Ball, “decided to switch direction and get into high-altitude guiding” (Krakauer 35). According to one of Hall’s partners, Bill Atkinson, in order to be a professional climber long-term, the climber has to make each climb more advanced and dangerous to continue to receive funding from sponsors (Krakauer 35).

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This is because, in the end, the two guides were not careful or safe, each for their own reasons. “Likewise since he had failed to get anybody to the top in 1995, it would have been bad for Hall’s business if he failed again in 1996-- especially if Fisher succeeded(285).” This is Hall’s reason for pushing forward, the fact that it would be bad for his business if he didn’t keep on pushing forward, especially since he “was charging $65,000 a head to guide clients to the top of the world(37).” Fisher's reason was that “Fisher had never guided Everest before 1996. From a business standpoint, there was a lot of pressure on him to be successful(285).”

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