Mount Everest Climbing Disaster In Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air

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*MILD SPOILERS THROUGHOUT*

“With enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,” Hall observed. “The trick is to get back down alive.” These were the words of the head guide on a Mount Everest Climb in 1996 that had just finished his fifth summit but had not lived to do it again.

Into Thin Air is an autobiographical novel of a first hand account of the 1996 Mount Everest Climbing Disaster. The author, Jon Krakauer was a journalist hired to do a study on Mount Everest. In 1996 he and a team of climbers, doctors, and scientists made the trek on the southwest face of the mountain. Once the climbing team, lead by Rob Hall, reaches 17,000 feet they get caught in the biggest storm of the year. There are 14 deaths (all of the bodies