Sherry Ortner discusses just about all the generalizations and subjects about mountaineering we have talked about in class. Throughout the book you can tell she is being extremely cautious but honest with her arguments. Doing so she does a great job of examining and making clear the root of how Sherpas are portrayed. I like how she…
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Into Thin Air
by nap •
John Krakauer’s Into Thin Air has throughout the years become a staple in classic mountaineering novels. When I began reading this book I was curious on how this book would compare to some of the other books that we have read in class. Ultimately I decided that Krakauer was a highly opinionated individual and this attitude is portrayed…
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Krakauer’s Wrath!
by The Crooked Spoke •
In my opinion Krakauer did make an honest attempt to accurately depict the events of the ’96 disaster. However, it is unsettling that many of his interviews with fellow climbers from the trip took place well after the expedition, and followed backlash toward Krakauer’s original article that was published in Outside Magazine (for whom Krakauer was…
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Reading Response Into Thin Air
by mmg •
Reading Response
Into Thin Air
by Matt •
At first I was wondering how Into Thin Air would have been different if Krakauer took peoples advice to wait a few years after the accident and then write the book, but after reading it, I doubt it would have been much different. I enjoyed Krakauer’s writing on the history of Everest in the beginning of the…
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Into Thin Air – Week 11
by Bryant Lymburn •
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…
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Into Thin Air
by wmg •
We have discussed John Krakauer before, yet, this is the first book we have read by him and the first few chapters give us some insight on what kind of person Krakauer is. It shows that he was natural born climber, working for NOALS, along with climbing multiple peaks throughout North America. His insight shows…
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Reading Response 11
by Josh •
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…
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Reading Response
by mkg •
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…
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Into Thin Air
by mel •
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,…