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109 out of 109 people found this review helpful.

Into Thin Air: Gripping Account of Ascending Mount Everest

Date of Review:  Nov 9, 2001
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...
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  5.0

by: Bryan_Carey
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Vivid, suspenseful writing
Cons
There's nothing bad about this book.
 
61 out of 61 people found this review helpful.

Tragedy At The Top- Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air

Date of Review:  Dec 7, 2000
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 pointy-eared...
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  5.0

by: prfstars
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Excellent writing, gripping story
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Not even one.
 
58 out of 58 people found this review helpful.

How much are you willing to pay to climb Everest?

Date of Review:  Aug 27, 2000
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 question, ?If...
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  5.0

by: AlexG
Recommended to buy: Yes

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One of the best adventure books of all...
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56 out of 56 people found this review helpful.

Worst mountain disaster in Everest Climbing history - Titanic above the iceberg

Date of Review:  Dec 20, 2001
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...
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  5.0

by: deaser26
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Amazing recounting of the strength of...
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a mountain strewn with oxygen bottles,...
 
54 out of 54 people found this review helpful.

A Dream Turned Deadly

Date of Review:  Jul 14, 2000
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...
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  5.0

by: bgoodday
Recommended to buy: Yes

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An unforgetable experience
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46 out of 46 people found this review helpful.

The ultimate physical challenge...

Date of Review:  Aug 13, 2006
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 try again after I...
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  5.0

by: knotheadusc
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Fascinating story about a once in a...
Cons
Details some sad realities about Mount...
 
30 out of 30 people found this review helpful.

Man vs. Nature on an intimate level

Date of Review:  Jun 27, 2000
Review: After reading Jon Krakauer's firsthand account of the worst Mt. Everest disaster in recent history, I was left feeling like the wind had been knocked out of me. I could not put the book down. As I read the horrific events unfolding before me, I...
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  5.0

by: nannersg
Recommended to buy: Yes

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26 out of 26 people found this review helpful.

One of the most riviting personal accounts I have ever read

Date of Review:  Jun 21, 2009
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 Wild, and...
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  5.0

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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Riviting, extremely detailed, honest,...
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People lost their lives in order for...
 
25 out of 25 people found this review helpful.

Not an Adventure but a Tragedy

Date of Review:  Sep 2, 1999
Review: Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" kicked off the current "adventure" reading craze, with millions of couch potatoes sitting snug in their living rooms living vicariously through a small group of maniacs who choose to risk their and other's lives in...
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by: Bookdiva
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Exciting, fast-paced, well-written,...
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Not exactly an uplifting read --...
 
22 out of 22 people found this review helpful.

Compelling fools climb Into Thin Air

Date of Review:  Sep 28, 2000
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...
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by: niccy6
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Amazing story told compassionately and...
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I didn't want it to end.
 

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