Into Thin Air : A personal account of the Everest Disaster - Jon Krakauer
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Into Thin Air is a brilliant book: as a work of journalism, a history of Everest, an explanation of the psyche of mountaineers that leads them to attempt such a frankly insane journey, and as an exorcism of Krakauer’s own sense of guilt for what he felt was his culpability in the deaths of his fellow climbers. His descriptions of his time on the mountain and the unfolding disaster are nightmarishly vivid - the complexity and danger of Everest is laid out, against which humans realise their own fragility - sometimes too late. It also spells out the fundamental ambiguity of morality in the Death Zone - there are numerous anecdotes of less than stellar behaviour on the part of climbers when at a height that can kill them at any moment.
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