Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Diaster

Pros: Vivid, suspenseful writing

Cons: There's nothing bad about this book.

The Bottom Line: Into Thin Air is an well- written account of human endurance and tragedy that most everyone will enjoy.

Review: Have you ever felt the urge to accomplish some feat of physical endurance?

Maybe you have considered skydiving? Or perhaps the thought of bungi –jumping has crossed your mind from time to time?

Author Jon Krakauer had an obsession...

Pros: Fascinating story about a once in a lifetime trip.

Cons: Details some sad realities about Mount Everest. Ultimately a sad story.

The Bottom Line: Reading this book made me grateful for the abundance of oxygen at sea level.

Review: I tried to read Jon Krakauer's 1997 book Into Thin Air when it was still pretty new on the shelves. For some reason, the first time I tried to read Into Thin Air, I was unable to get into it and put it aside. I recently decided to ...

Pros: Amazing recounting of the strength of the human spirit - the ice

Cons: a mountain strewn with oxygen bottles, old tents and dead bodies

The Bottom Line: A tremendous recounting of the tragedy of May 1996 on top of the earth, Everst eats climbers for breakfast and spits the bones on the North Face

Review: Everything I needed to know about climbing Mount Everest, I learned from my moms

My mom always told me not to climb up anywhere that I could not get back down from on my own, and I have tried to heed this advice over the years. I think...

Pros: Excellent writing, gripping story

Cons: Not even one.

The Bottom Line: Krakauer is an incredibly talented writer.

Review: Because it's there.

-George Mallory, in response to "an irritating newspaperman who demanded to know why he wanted to climb Everest."

This was also the answer given by a middle-aged and pot-bellied Captain Kirk, as a...

Pros: One of the best adventure books of all time

Cons: None

Review: The Wall Street Journal ranks Into Thin Air “among the greatest adventure books of all time.” And after reading this book I can understand why. It is a story of such bone-chilling horror and genuine nightmare than I had to ask myself a...

Pros: An unforgetable experience

Cons: NONE

Review: "I distrust summaries, any kind of gliding through time or any to great of claim that one is in control of what one recounts. I think someone who claims to understand but is obviously calm, someone who claims to write with emotion recollected in...

Pros: Riviting, extremely detailed, honest, action-packed

Cons: People lost their lives in order for these events to transpire.

The Bottom Line: This is one of the best books I have ever read. There is no reason to not read this book.

Review: I am amazed it took me until the age of 26 to read this book (12 years after it was published). Into Thin Air is easily one of the best books I have ever read. I became introduced to Jon Krakauer a short time ago while reading Into The ...

Pros: Exciting; detailed descriptions; vivid photos; attractive and well crafted book.

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: Very well crafted book; illustrated; an exciting and tragic story; I highly recommend this book to have an adventure without ever leaving home!

Review: I am a home body who enjoys her high adventure through the eyes of the more reckless adventurer. INTO THIN AIR is definitely a harrowing and hair raising adventure that, for many a reader may be a little too real for comfort.

I had first read...

Pros: Amazing story told compassionately and critically.

Cons: I didn't want it to end.

Review: The entire concept of actually climbing to the top of Mount Everest has always seemed somewhat mythical to me. I knew that it had been done but I assumed that the men that summited were superhuman, not like the rest of us. I also assumed that was the...

Pros: Suspenseful, well written novel

Cons: imagery shows you some things you don't wanna know

The Bottom Line: I recommend you read this novel. It is very exciting and full of suspense.

Review: In this novel Jon Krakauer delivers a great writing style. The book is full of suspense and keeps you turning pages all night. Once you pick this book up you will probably read all the way through it before you put it down again. Unfortunately this ...