Jenna Premo Into Thin Air

The main character and protagonist, Jon Krakauer, is a United States client and journalist who is on an expedition to climb to the summit of Mt. Everest. He takes the reader through his horrifying experiences on the mountain, including the death of his team, lack of oxygen, and horrible weather. The conflict in this novel is an internal and external conflict. It is an internal conflict of man vs. himself. Jon Krakauer, had to go through mental states of giving up and dying on the mountain

In order to continue climbing Everest, many aspects of climbing need to be improved before more people endanger their lives to try and reach the roof of the world. The guides have some areas that need the most reform. During the ascension of Everest the guides made a plethora mistakes that seemed insignificant but only aided in disaster. The guides first mistake is allowing “any bloody idiot [with enough determination] up” Everest (Krakauer 153). By allowing “any bloody idiot” with no climbing experience to try and climb the most challenging mountain in the world, the guides are almost inviting trouble. Having inexperienced climbers decreases the trust a climbing team has in one another, causing an individual approach to climbing the mountain and more reliance on the guides. While this approach appears fine, this fault is seen in addition to another in Scott Fischer’s expedition Mountain Madness. Due to the carefree manner in which the expedition was run, “clients [moved] up and down the mountain independently during the acclimation period, [Fischer] had to make a number of hurried, unplanned excursions between Base Camp and the upper camps when several clients experienced problems and needed to be escorted down,” (154). Two problems present in the Mountain Madness expedition were seen before the summit push: the allowance of inexperienced climbers and an unplanned climbing regime. A third problem that aided disaster was the difference in opinion in regards to the responsibilities of a guide on Everest. One guide “went down alone many hours ahead of the clients” and went “without supplemental oxygen” (318). These three major issues: allowing anyone up the mountain, not having a plan to climb Everest and differences in opinion. All contributed to the disaster on Everest in

Just before reaching the summit, despite the fact that he was having difficulty breathing, Krakauer was actually quite calm but disoriented, and relatively excited about the prospect of reaching the summit. However, at the moment of his summit, he did not feel the elation that he expected, but rather apprehension and dread about what he knew to be a difficult descent.

Into Thin Air is a novel which provides a personal view from Jon Krakauer about a treacherous disaster on Mount Everest in 1996. After reading the novel, I can say the book came out to be much better than expected. Initially, I assumed that the book would simply guide a reader from Kathmandu to the summit, but the book held much more value within its pages. Although there is one component of the story that I disliked, I can still say that Into Thin Air is a very interesting novel which could both inspire people to climb Everest or stay away from it.

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.

Several expeditions set out to take on Mt. Everest In 1996. Jon Krakauer is assigned by Outside Magazine to write about the journey through Mt. Everest. It is Krakauer's lifelong dream to climb Mt. Everest. He has climbed many times before not never at such a high altitude. His team was led by Rob Hall, one of the most respected climbers of that time. His team is made up of many different people with

This is the most important quote because in the book Krakauer realizes his mortality and the others around him. The mortality is a common theme and is explored through the narrative of the hiker Jon Krakauer in this story. He realizes while on the climb the mortality of us and recounts his experiences and the difficulties he had to face while on the climb.. Into thin air chronicles the story of a group of climber climbing mount everest. There was a rule that no matter what

Krakauer In the beginning of the second section of the novel uses a narrative and descriptive style. The point of view is 1st person. An example is, “I left my seat and walked to the rear of the airplane.” There is also irony within the novel. An example of Irony is that Jon knew Scott Fischer, and planned to be going with his company to Everest. At the last minute, there was a change of plans, and Jon ended up on Hall’s team. The ironic this is that Fischer and Hall are big business rivals. Jon Krakauer has an angry tone after saying, “I guess I knew on some level that you might not be coming back, and it seemed like such a waste. It seemed so fucking stupid and pointless." Krakauer is respectful towards the guides and the climbers especially when it’s his wife.

In this week’s reading of Into Thin Air and in The Climb we accidents begin to happen and the adversity of the climb is getting higher. In into thin air, the group goes on their last acclimatization trip in this chapter, from Camp Two to Camp Three, spending the night there, at 24,000 feet before returning to Base Camp. They leave Camp Two at 4:45 am, and the temperature is negative seven degrees Fahrenheit. Doug Hansen and Krakauer both awake feeling terrible, cold, exhausted and suffering from various maladies such as frostbite. In chapter 9 most of the people in the group start significantly feeling the effects of the journey. Most encounter frostbite or worse, and for the first time the team hits weather that prevents them from going as far as they'd planned. Not yet up as high as Camp Three, they are already pushed back by the unpredictability of Everest. As Krakauer struggles to climb the Lhotse Face, he knows that each of his teammates is enduring the same hardships. This makes him reconsider his opinions of people, because the fact that they are suffering the same problems he is means that they are stronger than he

The book Into Thin Air is a non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer, and it's about his struggle in the events leading to the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. The main characters in Into Thin Air is Jon Krakauer, the narrator of the book, Rob Hall, the man leading the expedition, and Andy Harris, a guide who slowly became one of Jon Krakauer's best friend. The conflict is Man Vs. Nature therefore the conflict is a struggle between the climbers who are trying to survive and conquer Mount Everest. Jon Krakauer is a retired climber hired by the Outside Magazine to join an expedition on a journey to climb Mount Everest. During the climb to the peak of Mount Everest he details his experience on Mount

Mountain climbing is viewed as an extremely dangerous sport, especially if you're daring enough to climb the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest. Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer is about author and mountain climber, Jon Krakauer who was hired to write an article about the commercialism on Mount Everest, decides to climb the mountain unaware that he had just joined what had been the most catastrophic Everest expedition ever. Into Thin Air intended to create tension as well as suspense throughout the book. Tension refers to a sense of uncertainty and a straining feeling in the audience. Like tension, suspense give you a feeling of uncertainty but also anticipation and curiosity to what is going to happen next and the outcome.

Jon Krakauer uses many senses to create his story ”Into Thin Air” but the most that sticks out is tension and suspense. ” Into Thin Air” is about Jon Krakauer reaching the summit of Mt.Everest with other climbers while being in the deadliest season in the history of Everest. Krakauer uses tension and suspense in different ways in describing and telling the story. He wants the readers to get the feeling of what's happening in that moment,he wants them to be in the moment and feel like they're part of the story. He use multiple ways to show how he does this process but more specifically he does this by order of events, pacing and foreshadowing, and by employing organizational patterns.

Even though the climbers understood that climbing is no easy task to accomplish, they witnessed miracles that only humans can perform such as that of Beck Weathers still being alive after becoming blind in his right eye with no one to watch after him as he started walking in the wrong direction (316). While preparing for and being on this mountain climb, the mountain trekkers experienced emotions only humans facing struggles can feel with such intensity. The author experienced determination when he wished to quench is mountain-climbing thirst even with his few credentials and he felt belief as he wore a Xi-stone and hoped his partner Doug would reach the summit with him (113, 159). The author, who probably never felt these human emotions on a regular basis with such fervor, only experienced them when he was faced with the struggle of climbing Everest. As the author climbed Everest, he realized several things that he would not have had he not climbed Everest. When forced to be the ice chopper in place of a Sherpa, Krakauer understood that even as he goes under gruesome conditions as a climber, and life in general, some people have to do even more labor than he

In the editorial, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer discusses the topic of the disaster that occurred that day at Mount Everest. He states many of the events that happened in detail and how it changed his life completely. Throughout that day, Jon Krakauer joined a team in which their goal was to reach the summit of Mount Everest with several different guides. They were leaded by guides to help along the way to help reach the summit successfully. As the day went on , many of the team members were left behind in which it gave a bad sign.

Vulnerability impacts any individual throughout each new and interactive experience. To become vulnerable is to open up to the consequences of frantic outcomes. Individuals will lead to vulnerability to cope with a trauma that has created a solemn change to a lifestyle. Jon Krakauer explains how the trauma of Mt. Everest changed his outlooks on reality, through different coping mechanisms. Krakauer uses his writing in his book, Into Thin Air, to cope with the guilt of surviving the terror that occurred upon Mt. Everest, as well as to understand what actions caused each outcome. Within an excerpt from Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer is reflective towards his audience of how vulnerability shaped the experiences upon Mt. Everest to cope with the