Reading Response – Week 11 Bryant Lymburn For this week’s reading the assignment of Into Thin Air is a text that follows Jon Krakauer’s account of his expedition to climb Mount Everest and the events that occurred during that season. Jon Krakauer is a renowned climber in the United States and has summitted many technical…

Into Thin Air brings to mind a number of different aspects of mountaineering that must be addressed. For one thing, Into Thin Air is notably different than other mountaineering accounts, like Annapurna and The White Spider because it is much more modern and more recent account. Because of that, the dynamics of mountaineering are completely different than they were in these…

Chapter nine of Fallen Giants was a very interesting chapter and one that I found very easy to follow and it also caught my attention. The shift from a “pure” and isolated experience free from real world scenarios and stressors such as politics and the possibility of war did not seem exist within the high…

I found this reading particularly interesting, I don’t know if it was Krakauer’s honest and a little bit condescending tone, or the story itself, but both made this Everest disaster an intriguing read, but also sort of frustrating in a couple ways. To begin with Krakauer gives the contents of the brochure to the reader,…

I tried to shake myself from the pessimistic feelings that had recently developed since reading Shit Happens, but it had primed me for this weeks reading. I tried to see the clients as genuine enthusiasts and lovers of the sport of Mountaineering, yet my disdain persisted. I do not think these climbers deserved to be…

The U.S.A. emerged from W.W.II as a technological and economic power on the rise, and it wasn’t long before some of this momentum shifted to the high alpine. A first major feather in America’s cap was to be K2; not quite the biggest but definitely the baddest of the 8,000 meter peaks. By this point in…