Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer

Why would anyone want to climb Mount Everest with all the dangers that are included in this journey? In the book, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer starts the story when he the summit. Then it jumps back and starts off from the beginning when he was offered a job to write a news article for Outsider Magazine. His goal was to write about his experience and hardships he went through to the people that took on the challenges of the climb. The most difficult time of the climb was not reaching the top, but having the strength to get back down to the bottom, with little energy and not much oxygen. Many people throughout the story had problems involving the high altitude and illness, and that sometimes led to death. What was going on in Jon Krakauer’s

The first reason was that he wanted to document a climb on Mount Everest because he was already a serious climber. He had climbed since he was eight years old. that many people would not take into consideration. Jon climbed the Devil’s Thumb in Alaska, which is another major mountain similar to Mount Everest. His next journey and lifelong goal was to climb Mount Everest. Jon had always dreamed about climbing Mount Everest, but many consequences came along with what his dream was. Jon’s second reason for going up Mount Everest was that a magazine company, Outsider Magazine, gave him the opportunity to write an article about his journey. To climb Mount Everest it costs 35,000 dollars, which Jon thought was way too much money for such a high risk. He was not going to take the job, but the company offered to pay all 35,000 dollars for him to write the article. The article for Outsider Magazine helped him further write the book, Into Thin Air. The final reason for Jon writing his book is to inform the readers of Outsider Magazine what it is like to climb Mount Everest. He wanted to explain to others how dangerous and the intensity of the climb. The climb that Jon participated in is the second most dangerous climb up Mount Everest. Jon had a variety of reasons for writing the book which eventually became a national number one