The story “Into Thin Air”, by Jon Krakauer, first starts with Jon Krakauer being 29,028 feet up in the atmosphere in the middle of his adventure as he and a few other groups from around the world strive to get to the top of the summit of Mt. Everest. The. While up into the atmosphere, Jon was having a hard time and suffering from the lack of sleep and food, along with a gruesome cough he had had for weeks, which also caused him to break two of his ribs. Later in the story, Jon starts talking about his process of beginning the expedition, joining Rob Hall’s company, and meeting his other group members. Rob Hall has guided many people to the top of the mountain and has claimed his company to be the “world leader in Everest climbing”.
Into thin air is a book where you learn about the inside of an expedition that to outsiders may seem as easy. The struggles that the main character faces scar him for the rest of his life, which lead him to write the book to answer questions that he or other people might have had with the expedition that took place. This character shows strength to overcome the obstacles that are put in his path. At first in the beginning of the book Jon Krakauer starts off by being just another climber that is going on an expedition to Mount Everest, but as the book advances you can tell that Krakauer at the beginning wasn’t mentally prepared for what was going to happen in that expedition and didn’t expect the outcome of it. Later on the expedition instead
Only 6.5% of people who climb Mt. Everest don’t make it back down. But that was not the case for Jon Krakauer in his group. In total, nine lives were lost on the mountain, and three more lives were lost in the following month. These tragic events led to many changes in the character of Jon Krakauer. In Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into Thin Air, Ngawang’s choice to refuse to get treated for HAPE, Beck Weather’s choice to stand on a big rock and let the wind blow him off, and Rob Hall’s choice to not abandon Doug Hansen and save himself led to Jon becoming a wiser, more respectful, and mentally stronger individual.
When Krakauer was nine years old Unsoeld, a family friend and an incredibly successful mountaineer, shared tales of his adventures causing Jon to have a deep fascination with mountaineering. This started his lifelong love affair with Everest. Jon’s dream of Everest was fulfilled when Krakauer was chosen to summit, with the Rob Hall's expedition, in order to write an article for Outside magazine. During that trip to the summit Jon Krakauer faced a horrible storm that cost many lives.
The turn around time was supposed to be between 1-2p.m. but the guide Scott Fischer never specified just when the Mountain Madness group would head back down to camp four. Krakauer summited at 1:12pm and was back to camp four at 6:45pm. where he had allegedly seen Andy Harris arrive just a little while before. This actually turned out to be Martin Adams, and both Krakauer and Adams had been so delirious that they didn’t know it was each other that they had run into until weeks after the expedition. After Krakauer returns to camp four, he crashes and sleeps without knowledge of the storm going on outside.
Mount Everest, is the world's tallest mountain. It has incredible views, slick ice, and harsh weather conditions. In 1996, Jon Krakauer decided to climb this mountain, documenting the process of it, along with showing the point of view of other climbers. Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” should be in Danville Community Schools 10th Grade curriculum due to its themes of decision-making and suffering, its impact on history throughout wars and law changes, and how Krakauer portrays the perspective and descriptive language of the reader.
Into thin air is the novel written by Jon Krakauer, who went climbing on Everest along with many other people. The time of 1996 spring expedition to Everest. There was three teams climbing the mountain, those teams being, Adventure Consultants led by Rob Hall, Mountain Madness led by Scott Fischer, and Taiwanese Expedition led by Makalu Gau. In total there was 33 climbers, in which eight died later on four more people died, some of the climbers died on the mountain and some died because of how sevre their injuries were. In addition Rob hall and Scott both died on Everest, two leaders dead.
For as long as anyone can remember, people have dreamed of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest. During May of 1996, an expedition set out to Nepal to attempt a climb up Mt. Everest. By the end of this expedition to the top of Everest, many climbers lost their lives due to the brutal weather. In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into Thin Air, he takes readers through the story of the expedition, and he talks about the climbers who died. Among the list of the dead was a man named Doug Hansen.
The point of view of the book is first-person, and it is narrated by Jon Krakauer. As the narrator, Jon is a reliable source of information since the book is his own personal account of the disaster. The story takes place mainly on Mount Everest, where Jon and his team climbed in 1996. Throughout the struggle up Everest, it is important to note that the characters portrayed in this book are real people. Because they were in this setting, it forced them to make decisions that they could not have made in any other situation.
Into thin air is saying that they can barely breathe in the air. The two climbers failed to return in¨ (Krakauer 2). The two climbers failed to return even though they were world renowned climbers. Their bodies were just sitting at the top of the mountain until somebody found them. Even though these two had great backgrounds they were not prepared for what they had in front of them.
For decades, skilled climbers have been attempting to reach the summit of the largest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Jon Krakauer is one of these skilled climbers that redefines the struggle to survive in his novel, Into Thin Air. Metaphorically, Mount Everest is a part of everyone’s lives. At some point, every person has an obstacle to overcome and a war to battle. Not only is this novel excruciatingly nerve racking, but it relates to the ‘everest’ in everyone’s lives.
Many things could go wrong climbing the highest mountain in the world with an elevation of 29,029 ft. 12 people died climbing Mount Everest. No is responsible for those death. The climbers had chosen to climb the mountain. In the novel it states, “Hall was charging $65,000 a head to guide clients to the top of the world” (Krakauer 35). This shows that a person is willing to pay to go through so much pain, risk and sickness to summit the top of the world.
A 12 year old Tyler Armstrong is hoping to come closer to his dream of climbing Mount Everest. Tyler has been practicing climbing mountain’s half his life with running and practicing with professionals. He would run 4 ½ miles regularly around a lake around his house and eating healthier foods. He climbed mountains in North America, Africa, South America, and Russia. After a call he can finally get his dream fulfilled or his dream can be ruined.
Rob Hall, Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, Yasuko Namba, Scott Fischer, and many others unaccounted for would die in this accident. Beck Weathers and Makalu Gau were stuck in a desperate struggle for their lives, Beck being left for dead multiple times. All climbers of this expedition would be faced with the problem of saving
His dad, Paul Romero then started training him to climb the tallest mountains in the world. When climbing the deadlier north side of Mount Everest they experienced hurricane gales up to 120 mph. At one point in their climb a towering wall of ice collapsed dragging Jordan and his father down the mountain, while 80 feet away something similar killed a hungarian climber. In conclusion, Mount Everest is a deadly adventure with remarkable dangers.
