It was 1996 when Jon Krakauer took a job from the magazine company, Outside, to report on mountain climbing expedition tours which had been raising speculation. Krakauer had a passion for climbing ever since a young age, and he especially had always wanted to climb Everest. He had climbed before, but not altitudes as intense as what he was about to take on. Upon his journey, he found the altitude to be more than challenging. His oxygen intake began decreasing substancially and he could feel himself fading away. In this novel, he explains the struggles he had faced and stories of his fellow climbers. The reviewer states that Krakauer had held himself accountable for this tragedy, but he also says that it should make any climber pause before