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Into Thin Air

            Into Thin Air is without a doubt a unique and outstanding novel that grips the reader's interest and holds onto it until the very last paragraph. What makes it so unique is the fact that the story is told in the first person by one of the few survivors of the deadly climb. Each tragic episode is described in grotesque detail which is clear right from the beginning. The first chapter of the book catapults the reader to the summit of Mt. Everest, moments before the tragic chain of events that made up the disaster begin. The narrative hook is clear within the first couple of paragraphs. The narrator reaches the summit and then shortly after begins his decent where he suffers from a great loss of oxygen. He then looks down the side of the mountain to see a deadly storm building. The first chapter ends with the statement that the storm ahead "by the end of the day, every minute will count.".
             There after the author spends time educating the reader of the background of the mountain and events leading up to what happened in the first chapter. Krakauer does a good job of explaining how the highest point on earth was discovered with a short history lesson on Everest. Krakauer writes of the many expeditions that scaled Everest and how over the years the attempts were becoming more for the wealthy egotistical extremists who were in it for the publicity rather than those mountaineers who were in it for the love of the sport. It is this fact that is the reason for the author to join a team to climb Everest. He writes for Outsider magazine and was offered a cheap price to achieve his life goal in return for substantial advertisement in the magazine. .
             Krakauer retells his Everest account in a way that even a person who knows nothing about climbing could understand and follow the story line. He explains the long and detailed process a climber must go through to be able to withstand the scarce oxygen levels.


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1. Into Thin Air

The novel Into Thin Air is about Jon Krakauer, who works for a magazine, and upon his own request is sent to Mount Everest to climb the mountain and write a story about his experience. ... They cannot allow continued dissension to disrupt the effort to turn that decision into action. ... Ever since Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air was published. ... When often the case metaphors migrate to management, this mountaintop message ends up, well, disappearing into thin air: It stops at the top. ... I think the book Into Thin Air was an important book for managers. ...

  • Word Count: 1417
  • Approx Pages: 6
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

2. Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air Into Thin Air showed all the different ways of dealing with pain in bad circumstances. ... (Pg. 139) At this part the climbers were finally realizing what they were risking by attempting to climb this mountain but didn't want to let this sink into their heads. ...

  • Word Count: 1058
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

3. Into Thin Air

In his story of the ill-fated expeditions that attempted to climb Everest in the spring of 1996, Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer writes of the primitive conditions he and his team faced in the small hamlet of Lobuje, one of the waypoints they rested at before making the push to Everest. ... The river of snowmelt meandering through the center of the settlement was an open sewer the lodge filled with dense, acrid smoke, as if the exhaust from a diesel bus were being piped directly into the room. Twice during the night, coughing uncontrollably, I had to flee outside for air. ...

  • Word Count: 1154
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Grade Level: High School

4. Analyzing the Themes of Into Thin Air

The novel Into Thin Air, written by Jon Krakauer, has a variety of themes throughout the tragic account, but one seems to stay constant throughout. During the entire climb up and descent down the almighty Mt. Everest, the climbers and their sherpas must be able to trust and care for one another or ...

  • Word Count: 526
  • Approx Pages: 2
  • Grade Level: High School

5. The Benefits of Air Conditioning

One might often think of air conditioners as machines that conditions (cools) the air around us. ... Days afterward as the temperature and the humidity both climbed into the upper 90s and his discomfort became acute. Peskin described the problem "brilliantly solved" by Navy engineers who rigged up a device that blew air over six tons of ice and into the President's sickroom; the device worked well enough to reduce the temperature twenty degrees (601, 602). ... A central library system produces 1 gpm (0.06 L/s) or 43,200 gallons per month (54) That's a lot of water out of th...

  • Word Count: 1234
  • Approx Pages: 5
  • Has Bibliography

6. Air Pollution

What is Air Pollution? ... Consequently, our polluted atmosphere is becoming a better insulator, thus, preventing heat from escaping back into space. ... Consequently, the ozone layer in the stratosphere is thinning; in the A! ... Measures taken by the world towards Air Pollution The important and vital issue to be addressed now is what measures have been taken to prevent or decrease air pollution. ... Sealing foundations and installing special pipes and pumps can also prevent radon from going into buildings. ...

  • Word Count: 2074
  • Approx Pages: 8
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

7. Air Pollution

For example, forest fires emit particulates and Volatile organic chemicals into the atmosphere. ... In the presence of atmospheric moisture, sulfur dioxide and oxides of nitrogen turn into droplets of pure acid floating in smog. ... Oxides of nitrogen and sulfur dioxide pollute places far from the points where they are released into the air. ... These chlorine atoms begin reacting with ozone, breaking it down into ordinary oxygen molecules that do not absorb UV-B. ... Scientists are finding that under this assault the protective ozone layer in the stratosphere is thinning. ...

  • Word Count: 6167
  • Approx Pages: 25
  • Has Bibliography
  • Grade Level: Undergraduate

8. into the wild

In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East Coast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. ... That's the first paragraph of Jon Krakauer's gripping book Into the Wild (published one year before his best-selling Into Thin Air). ... Mother Nature on Everest (as described in Into Thin Air). Would he still be so forgiving of McCandless' walk into the wild? ... Into the Wild is modern journalism in its finest hour. ...

  • Word Count: 971
  • Approx Pages: 4
  • Grade Level: High School

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