Jon Krakauer wrote many books in his life, and he bases many of his books on his own experiences as a mountaineer. A majority of his books are nonfiction and have become very popular. That could be said because of his writing style and how he draws people in with his way of words. His most well-known book is Into Thin Air, which recalls about a journey of his during a Mount Everest Expedition which resulted in a disaster that included many deaths. Jon Krakauer’s personal account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster Into Thin Air is riveting and exciting, the reason being is that its historical origin resulted in many enthusiastic book assessments leading to a widening cultural influence.
Krakauer’s background guided him to climb Mount Everest,
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Normally I find non-fiction books boring and unexciting, however Into Thin Air is written in a way that makes it seem like it is the script of an adventurous survival movie. I never grew weary of reading the book because it always had me on the edge of my seat from suspense. Everytime I thought someone was going to die they would survive, but then die anyway. Finding out that mountain climbers had to pay thousand of dollars to try to attempt to reach the top of a summit while going through gruesome incidents, but might not even reach the top shocked me. The reason being that they spend tons of money to try to accomplish a goal that they might not achieve and they still would not get back all the things they had sacrificed to get there. I thought that was ludicrous. I realized that climbers have to depend on their expedition members as much as they have to rely on themselves or everyone will fail. They also have to endeavor the possible deaths of their team members and how there is very little they can do to help save them. To recapitulate, Into Thin Air was a book that I was dreading to read, yet I enjoyed reading about challenges mountaineers had to face and I was shocked to find out the true background of it