What Is The Theme Of Into Thin Air By John Krauker

John Krauker was born on April 12, 1954 and grew up in Oregon, he is the son of a amateur, mountaineer, and a doctor. John Krauker is a journalist, mountaineer, and an American writer who is better known for his third book titled Into Thin Air. Into Thin Air follows Krauker’s journey on the 1996 expedition of Mt. Everest. John Krauker’s passion for mountaineering likely came from his parent’s love for amueter mountaineering. Krauker’s dream to climb Everest started as a kid and eventually grew into a reality when he was offered a spot on Rob Hall’s expedition up the mountain as a journalist for Outside Magazine. Outside Magazine offered to pay for the expenses in addition to this they also offered to send him to Nepal. The expedition that Krauker had joined would later become known as the 1996 Everest disaster due to the events that took place on the mountain.

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