Only 6.5% of people who climb Mt. Everest don’t make it back down. But that was not the case for Jon Krakauer in his group. In total, nine lives were lost on the mountain, and three more lives were lost in the following month. These tragic events led to many changes in the character of Jon Krakauer. In Jon Krakauer’s novel, Into Thin Air, Ngawang’s choice to refuse to get treated for HAPE, Beck Weather’s choice to stand on a big rock and let the wind blow him off, and Rob Hall’s choice to not abandon Doug Hansen and save himself led to Jon becoming a wiser, more respectful, and mentally stronger individual. Ngawang’s choice to not get treated for HAPE, or High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, led to Jon becoming a wiser person. After this, …show more content…
Jon had more respect for the mountain, and more respect for others and their capabilities. After Beck had been blown off a rock, beyond the sight of everyone around him, he was presumed dead. Hutchinson organized a search team consisting of four Sherpas to locate his body, as well as the body of another climber who had also been missing, and was thought to be dead. They found both climbers, who, to their surprise, were alive, but barely. “Beck’s head was also caked with a thick armor of frost. Balls of ice the size of grapes were matted to his hair and eyelids.” (260), Hutchinson reports. Shocked, and confused about what to do, he asked Lhakpa, who had climbed Everest before and was respected by the Sherpas,what the best course of action would be. Lhakpa said that the best decision would likely be to just leave the two climbers, because “...they would certainly die before they could be carried down to Base Camp, and attempting a rescue would needlessly jeopardize the lives of other climbers on the Col...” (260) After being abandoned, Beck later returned to Camp, having walked himself, even in his terrible condition. This made Jon a more respectful person, because seeing how people can persevere, and live in even the toughest of times gave him more respect for others. As well, his respect for the mountain grew, after …show more content…
Rob Hall had been leading another one of his clients, Doug Hansen, up to the summit of the mountain. Even though the time that Rob had designated as the time to descend passed two hours ago, Rob kept going because he had had to turn Doug around on a previous climb. As they were approaching the summit, Doug was struggling, and as they began to descend, they ran out of oxygen. Due to miscommunication, Rob was unaware that there were two full bottles of oxygen waiting for them, so he stayed with Doug. Rob could have easily made it down to safety, but Doug couldn’t, and Rob didn’t want to leave his client stranded on the mountain. Andy Harris eventually got some oxygen up to Rob, but by the time he got it up Doug was dead and Rob was in terrible condition and too frostbitten to descend. Eventually, Rob perished, succumbing to the cold. This led to Jon becoming mentally stronger because he was without a guide, so he was forced to think more independently, and be more of a leader. He realized that even the most experienced climbers aren’t immune to the wrath of the mountain. After Rob Hall was gone, Jon and the other members of his group who were still alive were forced to make more decisions for themselves, and they had to really work together to survive, which made Jon mentally stronger because he had to be strong and work together. He had to shake off what had
Jon Krakauer is looking to fulfill a childhood ambition by finally climbing Mount Everest. After being assigned to write a brief piece about the mountain for Outside magazine, Krakauer manages to convince his bosses to fund a full-fledged expedition to the top. Bold. Krakauer is climbing with Adventure Consultants, a commercial group led by experienced climber Rob Hall. The journalist befriends several members of his group, such as Andy Harris, a guide, and Doug Hansen, a fellow client and postal worker back home.
Into Thin Air is a non fiction book written by Jon Krakauer which shows the dangers and challenges of climbing this almighty mountain known as Everest. In this extract, he emphasizes on the uncertainty the mountain offers and how the higher you go, the more fatigue will start hitting in. Jon Krakauer’s emphasis on the dangers and difficulties on climbing Everest, purposeful use of diction as well as also contrasting the dangers with beauty, deeply portrays how even in the toughest of times, people should always see the positives and in this scenario he admires the beauty Everest brings. Krakauer reiterates the difficulties/dangers of climbing Everest and how you have to adapt to any obstacles that might come your way.
In the long run, Krakauer concludes that complete arrogance is in part to blame for the tragedy that takes place on Everest. Hall "bragged on more than one occasion that he could get almost any reasonably fit person to the summit. " Their arrogance also caused their clients to lower their guard and not fully appreciate the risks of the expedition. Overall, Krakauer taught many different themes within the novel that everyone should
He passes hall and other climbers until he gets to the southside summit where there are oxygen canisters. Krakeru then comes across Beck weathers, whose vision is incapacitated due to the pressure on the mountain affecting one of his eyes that recently underwent surgery. Beck is suffering but refuses assistance and courageously fights toward camp. As krakauer gets farther down, the storm brews stronger, and a blizzard develops. He attempts to follow the accurate trail but is impacted by the storm as begins to have hallucinations.
For as long as anyone can remember, people have dreamed of reaching the summit of Mt. Everest. During May of 1996, an expedition set out to Nepal to attempt a climb up Mt. Everest. By the end of this expedition to the top of Everest, many climbers lost their lives due to the brutal weather. In Jon Krakauer’s novel Into Thin Air, he takes readers through the story of the expedition, and he talks about the climbers who died. Among the list of the dead was a man named Doug Hansen.
Once they hit summit and were at the top of the mountain, some of the groups caught in the end by the storm. Sadly, Hansen, Hall and Fischer were left stranded. Hansen ran out of oxygen, and Fischer was found dead. Some groups were saved, but others were presumed dead. Krakauer survived and achieved the task of climbing the mountain that most people would not or could not do.
He may have been stranded on the mountain like the others if he had used all his energy on the ascent and not having enough to get down. Like Lopsang, who used all his energy helping clients to the top, that he could not make it to the top himself. Jon made the smart decisions that helped him on journey like graduates who will take the knowledge they acquired from class to the community around them where they will make the smart
Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Knowing that any person in the world can climb Mount Everest is amazing. In the novel Into Thin Air written by Jon Krakauer, climbers climb to the highest point of the world. Some everyday people like Jon Krakauer, who is an author hired to write an article about Mount Everest for an adventure magazine and Doug Hansen who is a postal worker climbing Mount Everest for the second time.
The passage in question is taken from Jon Krakauer’s personal account of his endeavour to summit Everest in 1996, and it is a description of Jon Krakauer’s experiences while at approximately 21,000 feet on the mountain itself. The book is called Into Thin Air, and was published a mere year after the tragedy that struck the team headed by Rob Hall, the founder of a mountaineering agency: Adventure Consultants. In this specific extract, Krakauer uses vivid imagery and similes in his description of the surroundings to show the obvious peril that climbing the most formidable peak on the planet entails. Additionally, he deploys diction that conveys his initial shock when he sees the corpses, as opposed to the other climbers, who seemed to be fairly
The events that occurred on Everest during the famous 1996 expedition are recollected by Jon Krakauer through his memories and multiple interviews. Throughout his research, Krakauer was able to piece together everything that transpired during the deadly voyage. The book starts on the top of the world, Krakauer has just reached the peak of Everest and he is prepared to start back down. After the first chapter, Jon Krakauer starts to backtrack. He begins giving descriptions at the beginning of the expedition before they even got onto the mountain, details about every person who will be on the mountain.
Nature can be very powerful against humans. In situations when humans have to deal with nature, many natural calamities occur that may cause situations such as death, injury, or illness. Jon Krakauer, the author and protagonist of the book Into Thin Air, expresses the conflict of man vs. nature to support how the natural calamities while climbing and descending Mount Everest set his and everyone else's lives at risk. John Krakauer always had a dream of climbing Mount Everest since his father introduced mountain climbing to him at the age of eight. In the year 1996, Krakauer finally received the chance to climb Mount Everest along with other clients when Outside magazine sent him to Nepal to write about his expedition to the summit of the mountain.
Mountain climbing is a very tough activity that includes years of training before someone is ready to complete an exhilarating climb. Looking around the world, there are many amazing places to climb. Although two of the most difficult and intense climbs include the Devil’s Thumb in Alaska and Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on earth. “Everest,” by Erik Weihenmayer and “The Devils Thumb,” by Jon Krakauer have some similarities and some differences in terms of the author’s perspective, organization structure, and tone and word choice. As the two authors wrote, they showed their struggles and feats of every situation through words.
Into Thin Air By Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air is a non-fiction and adventure book that details the disaster that occurred in 1996 at Mount Everest, and it started as a magazine article. The book is a personal account of the author Jon Krakauer, a professional writer and mountaineering hobbyist, who was sent on the Everest expedition by Outside Magazine with the task of writing an article about his experience. In my opinion, people should read Into Thin Air because it is a story about survival, and it consists of valuable lessons about, perseverance, determination, and character.
Krakauer ends Into Thin Air by appealing to logos in order to develop an argument which explains the deaths of Scott Fischer, the leader of an expedition ascending Everest at the same times as the Adventure Consultant’s expedition, and Yasuko Namba, a client of Adventure Consultants. In the final chapters of the book, many of the survivors are faced with the decision. of whether or not to save their nearly dead team mates. Krakauer argues that attempting to rescue the injured survivors like Fischer and Namba, would needlessly jeopardize the lives of the other climbers. Including this argument helps Krakauer establish the motives of the surviving climbers.
The book Into Thin Air is a book that outlines the Mount Everest disaster, as factually correct it can. However, there is a person that is too blame for this disaster to happen. The main person responsible for the deaths of the Mount Everest disaster was Robert Hall. However, that does not mean Robert Hall was the only one at fault. Ultimately the blame falls on Ang Dorje, Robert Hall, and Ian Woodall, each for their own reasons, and ultimately Hall, and Fisher were responsible for the others.