With the best bit about my last, ultimately disappointing read turning out to be the actual climbing of Mount Everest, I decided to stick with that theme but turn to real life for my next read. I’d enjoyed other books by Jon Krakauer and so decided that he’d make a good guide for me. Into Thin Air did not disappoint. Sent by the magazine he was employed by at the time, the story Krakauer came home with was very different to the one he’d intended, after having survived the 1996 expedition that took the lives of eight people. Into Thin […]
“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality”
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
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