Sean
I have no idea how I hadn’t read Into Thin Air before given how often I read Into The Wild when I was younger, but I’m happy to have rectified that error now. This is such a deeply emotional story. Especially in the last hundred pages, detailing the summit push, I felt like I was living every harrowing step right along with Jon Krakauer as the joy of achieving that dream turned to a literal horror movie. I teared up at multiple points; especially the confusion over Andy Harris’ demise, and Rob Hall talking to his wife on the sat phone while stranded and on the verge of death. This story is the ultimate reminder of how small humans truly are when faced with the power of mother nature and why, no matter how hard we try, it can never be tamed.
I have no idea how I hadn’t read Into Thin Air before given how often I read Into The Wild when I was younger, but I’m happy to have rectified that error now. This is such a deeply emotional story. Especially in the last hundred pages, detailing the summit push, I felt like I was living every harrowing step right along with Jon Krakauer as the joy of achieving that dream turned to a literal horror movie. I teared up at multiple points; especially the confusion over Andy Harris’ demise, and Rob Hall talking to his wife on the sat phone while stranded and on the verge of death. This story is the ultimate reminder of how small humans truly are when faced with the power of mother nature and why, no matter how hard we try, it can never be tamed.
