Bukreev Into Thin Air

Krakauer was critical of Boukreev in this section of the climb because Boukreev was not using supplemental oxygen or a backpack, both of which Krakauer felt he should have had in the case of an emergency, as Boukreev was a guide, and charged with helping and protecting the clients, an ability which Krakauer thought was inhibited by this lack of oxygen and supplies, especially considering how much the high altitude and thin air affects the ability to think clearly.

In this passage from Jon Krauaker's Into Thin Air, Jon Krauaker does not display the sense of accomplishment that one would expect from achieving such a difficult endeavor. He really displays a sense of grief and dissatisfaction from what he had accomplished. For taking a risk as life threatening as this, in Krauaker's eyes, he couldn't possibly be proud of what he had done when so many men had lost their lives during the same excursion that he journeyed on. Throughout this novel, Jon Krauaker uses immense amounts of rhetorical devices to display his emotion to convey his attitude toward the dangers of climbing Mt. Everest.

Author’s Goal: Jon Krakauer’s goal is to provide an accurate account of the Mt. Everest disaster, and describe the other events and effects the climb had leading up to it. I think he reached his goal because he was able to connect with the reader in many different ways, and he got his message across well. He provides vivid descriptions, details, and facts, all while establishing that he is credible. The author did convince me of his point of view. Now, I understand that climbing Everest is very difficult, and there are numerous challenges people must face and overcome during an expedition.

Krakauer was fascinated by mountain climbing from a young age. “How would it feel, I wondered over and over, to be on that thumbnail-thin summit ridge, worrying over the storm clouds building on the horizon, hunched against the wind and dunning cold, contemplating the horrible drop on either side?” Asked Krakauer. He had received a book as a child that was full of information about mountain climbing, and he was fascinated. Krakauer was glued to his book for the next decade, until he finally decided to put his dreams into action. When he was twenty

Despite his impressive record he had never attempted anything close to the scale of Everest, whose summit is at an extremely dangerous altitude. He even admits to his relative inexperience with high altitude saying, “Truth be told, I’d never been higher than 17,200 feet--not even as high as Everest Base Camp”(28). Krakauer also mentions how he has gotten out of shape over the years partially because of the lack of climbing in his life, making him even less prepared for the assent. Krakauer shows a definite fear of such a high mountain, referring to climbers who have perished in the past. He states that, “Many of those who died had been far stronger and possessed vastly more high-altitude experience than I.” (28). Even though Krakauer’s experience may be more relevant to the Everest assent than some of the other tourist climbers, it is nowhere near the level needed to be considered an elite climber.

Krakauer is one of the many people that decided that Everest needed to be climbed. Krakauer couldn’t help but take the impossible mission.

Mount Everest is 29,092 feet tall. Imagine climbing this mountain with little to no experience. Would you survive? In the nonfiction novel Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer and his recruited crews try climbing this mountain. With many deaths along the way to the top, readers are quick to blame characters in the book. However, character stands out from the rest: Krakauer. In the book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer is the most responsible for the other character’s deaths because he recruited and dragged along inexperienced mountain climbers, pushed them harder than they should’ve been pushed, and watched them suffer.

The conflict of Man vs Nature was very apparent as soon as the book began. By page 9 Krakauer reported, “moments after i dropped below the south summit it began to snow lightly, and all visibility went to hell.” This shows the instantly that mother nature was not on his side. The decreased visibility and lack of oxygen he reported are physical effects inflicted upon him, making the already cold climb up everest, even more difficult.

When Krakauer first meets his team he thinks to himself, “I wasn’t sure what to make of my fellow clients. In outlook and experience they were nothing like the hard-core climbers with whom I usually went into the mountains (Krakuaer 39).” Krakuaer represents a sense of arrogance to his team because he had been on other mountain climbing expeditions and most of everyone else on his team had little to no experience climbing. He is implying that he is one of the best climbers on his team. Another time Krakuaer states the incompetence of other clients and groups on the expedition: “The presence of the Taiwanese on Everest was a matter of grave concern to most of the other expeditions on the mountain. There was a very real fear that the Taiwanese would suffer a calamity that would compel other expeditions to come to their aid, risking further lives, to say nothing of jeopardizing the opportunity for other climbers to reach the summit” (122 Krakauer). Krakauer thinks that the Taiwanese would prevent people from reaching the mountain because all the other expeditions would have to come to their aid, further putting more peoples lives in danger. Krakauer shows pride in his ability in climbing, causing him to be

Jon Krakauer is an American writer known for his writings about the great outdoors. After being introduced to mountaineering as a child, Krakauer devoted much of his life to mountain climbing, leading up to his 1996 expedition to Mt. Everest. In his Into Thin Air, Krakauer recounts the dangerous journey, in which four of his teammates had died. Krakauer’s love for adventure significantly impacted many of his literary works, including Into the Wild, which focuses on the value of life and death, especially when one ventures into the great outdoors.

In Jon Krakauer’s book, “Into Thin Air”, there were a significant amount of deaths involved. Eight people lost their lives on the most disastrous Everest expedition in history. Was anyone responsible for these deaths? This question has many answers based on different people’s opinions. I think that the person that is held accountable for their deaths should be Jon Krakauer. He was selfish and didn’t do much to help others when they needed it.

Some slaves resisted by stealing tobacco, food or money anything they could take from their masters. Slaves resisted by rebelling they would even run away whatever they feel they can do to resist. Working slaves would break the machines at work to slow down the lines. Anything to mess the production up that day of work. The way the slaves communicated they developed a family system. The family system was to make sure that any child slave that was sold had family not just blood relatives.The slaves also communicated through encouragement and religion. The prayers the slaves did was to be freed from slavery.Slaves would spend time with their families to cope with the pain that they endured. (Holt and Brown, 2000)

On May 10, 1996 six people died trying to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. These people were parts of two expeditions that were in the Himalayas, preparing to ascend the summit for six weeks. The first group was under the direction of Rob Hall, who had put 39 paying clients on the summit in five years. Hall was considered the leader of the mountain and the man to see no matter what the discrepancy. Group two, headed by Fisher, who like Hall, was trying to start a profitable business in providing the experience of climbing Mt. Everest to all for the price of 60 to 70 thousand dollars. Unfortunatly, neither man would live to tell the tale of this expedition.

This novel, Into Thin Air, has impacted me in a multitude of ways. The first being the surprise that I felt throughout the book. All of the deaths and mishaps showed me that climbing Everest is not as easy and as simple as I thought it was. Krakauer also crashed a wave of sorrow on to me, as I felt bad for all of the people who lost family and friends in the disaster, or experienced it. Along with this, I was also impacted because the author was very informative about Everest and its history. He delved deep into the past beliefs about the mountain, the measurements, and different ways people have ascended the mountain. Before reading Into Thin Air I was very much clueless about any history or information surrounding the mountain.

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