Analysis Of Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer

29,028 Feet Jon Krakauer has been one of the most discussed climbers who summited Mount Everest on the fateful day of May 10, 1996. Krakauer was hired by the Outside magazine to climb everest with the Adventure Consultants team and write about the commercialization of Everest. The article he published wasn’t accurate in some places, so he decided to write Into Thin Air to provide the most accurate account of what he experienced with his summit of the mountain. Some say he could have saved lives, and others claim that he caused an immeasurable amount of pain to the friends and family of those who lost their lives. Jon Krakauer starts the novel at the top of the world- the summit of Mount Everest-, and ends the first chapter with one of the many little things that added up to some of the many deaths that summit day; his supplemental oxygen running out. This “cliffhanger” is in my opinion is one of the more exciting happenings in the

The turn around time was supposed to be between 1-2p.m. but the guide Scott Fischer never specified just when the Mountain Madness group would head back down to camp four. Krakauer summited at 1:12pm and was back to camp four at 6:45pm. where he had allegedly seen Andy Harris arrive just a little while before. This actually turned out to be Martin Adams, and both Krakauer and Adams had been so delirious that they didn’t know it was each other that they had run into until weeks after the expedition. After Krakauer returns to camp four, he crashes and sleeps without knowledge of the storm going on outside. His tent mate tries waking him up to help search for some of the missing climbers, but Krakauer is so exhausted he doesn't budge. These are the main events that Krakauer takes part in that trip, but most definitely not all of the main events in the