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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.

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.

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

Knowing that the wilderness can be extremely rough, people can understand that there is only a small chance of coming out alive after a long period of time of living there. McCandless and Ruess are examples of these instances; however, Krakauer lived to tell the story. McCandless suffered from starvation and natural disasters. He indicated all his struggles in his journal entries: “he’d written “4th day famine” in his journal” (164). After his ineffective attempt of leaving, he “turned around …back toward the bus” and died shortly (171). Although Ruess’s death was never confirmed, controversies revolved around the incident. Bewildering tales of his death included “death while scrambling on one or another canyon wall” and “[murdered] by a team of cattle rustlers” (94). Krakauer on the other hand, was the only individual out of the three to survive his expedition. In his narrative of his attempt at the Devil’s Thumb, he includes the phrase: “The climb was over” (144). This short sentence creates an artificial tone in which he expresses a very emotionless attitude after completing the harsh odyssey.

Krakauer worked a dead end job that was going to get him nowhere, until one day he built up the courage to quit his job, leave his home town, and make his dreams a reality. He drove from his home, with nothing but his car, and two hundred dollars to his name. Krakauer felt that by climbing The Devil’s Thumb, he would find himself amongst the frozen rocks and deep crevasses. He thought that if he could not climb this mountain, then his life meant nothing. He strove to be respected in the eyes of others, and he thought that if he did this, then he would

Ambition for everyone is different but this article went really well with the book Into Thin Air. For example in the book the people that chose to climb the mountain almost all had the same ambition. It ended up not working out for them and they ended up being unsuccessful. Some regretted even climbing the mountain. One quote that goes along with the theme ambition and the article is, “Doug...spent the entire previous year agonizing over the fact that he’d gotten to within three hundred feet of the summit and had to turn around,”(Krakauer, 171).

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.

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.

Jon Krakauer tells the events of his story while he shapes his resilience that guides him through the challenging obstacles that he faces. His resilience demonstrates that difficult moments can be overcome. Jon Krakauer and other members went on their journey to climb Mt. Everest. The. They faced many challenges when climbing, and this task was more dangerous than anything else.

On the day of May 10, 1996, several climbers were attempting to descend the slopes of Mount Everest in blizzard conditions: a time at which every moment mattered. Emerging from the pack, two climbers reached the safety of the tents of Camp Four before the majority of their teammates. Anatoli Boukreev and Jon Krakauer recounted the situation of that day in very different ways, but Krakauer seemed to portray Boukreev as an antagonist in his book, Into Thin Air. Boukreev proved in his own book, The Climb, that multiple actions called into question by Krakauer were in fact valuable steps that an experienced climber used in order to rescue clients in need.

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

The Devil’s Thumb and Everest are both memoirs about the expeditions of mountain climbers and their struggle whilst on their journey. John Krakauer, a man who got up and left his life behind in hopes of a change in the way he lived earned a new perspective through his solo climb of the Devil’s Thumb and Erik Weihenmayor, a blind man who took people by surprise by, with the help of others, climbing Mount Everest and showing the world that disadvantages can sometimes be used to accomplish big. These two men overcame their struggles and achieved great things. Weihenmayor and Krakauer used different tones, organizational structures, and wrote about the perspectives they had to influence the central ideas of their memoirs.

Many people have dreamed of climbing the tallest mountain on earth, Mount Everest. However one must possess certain physical and mental attributes to accomplish this giant feat. “Courage is not having the strength to go on: it's going on when you don't have the strength.” Ed Viesturs knows first-hand what having courage is all about although you’ve used all your strength. He kept going to reach his goal even after he faced life threatening obstacles.

Krakauer from what I know is a cragsman. To be accurate he is primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain-climbing. I figured out this information by reading the book “INTO THIN AIR”. I know you’re thinking why or how Jon Kraukauer is a hero, but he is a hero in many ways if you ask me. Krakauer does not have any ordinary like features. He is a guy who reaches the summit of Everest. Of course it takes skill but even with skill it is still taken a risk. After reading the book I still can’t believe that a human is on top of the world and

As an experienced mountaineer, Krakauer’s childhood dream had been to climb Mount Everest. This lingering dream was triggered with a full blast when he accepted the offer of being on Rob Hall’s leaded expedition as a reporter for Outside magazine. Krakauer had to change his attitude from a free-willed climber to an obedient client on the team and was concerned about his other fellow clients when they were first acquainted. “ In outlook and experience they were nothing like the hard-core climbers with whom I usually went into the mountains”. (Krakauer 39) In previous years, Krakauer had always climbed alone or with some trusted friends. He came to realize that one must completely rely on the guide instead of other clients on a guided expedition. After meeting the other clients, Krakauer develops a sense of superiority as he is one of the most experienced climbers on the team. It shocked him when the author found out that clients Beck Weathers, Stuart Hutchinson, and Lou Kasischke never tried on their mountaineering boots beforehand and Hutchinson even failed to notice his crampons (steel spikes that are attached to the bottom of boots to help with ice climbing) did not fit his boots. As the expedition drags on, Krakauer became more acquainted with the rest of his team members and has a change in mindset. “I learned that between the demands of their families and their high-powered careers, few of my fellow clients had had the opportunity to go climbing more than once or twice in the previous year…. But maybe I’m just being a snob, I scolded myself.” Krakauer admits through this context that he is deeply concerned about his inexperienced teammates although he realized that it is not up to him to worry about such things. He came to realize that although many other clients were extremely unexperienced, their goal to summit the