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Into Thin Air written by Jon Krakauer describes the author’s personal experience during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. The author pulled me in this book in many ways. Reading the blurb, it gave the reader an understanding that the book was going to be a personal account of facing life or death against nature. The book also gave hints that some of the costly moves that the climbers and sherpas made affected the outcome of their lives along with the people around them. Another part of the book that pulled me into the book was the hard decisions the climbers had to make to make it likely some of the climbers would survive. For example, Stuart Hutchinson, one of the climbers, created a search party to look for Yasuko Namba and Beck Weathers. …show more content…

Throughout the story, many guides, climbers and sherpas died. Others surprisingly lived. In the book, Beck Weathers, one of Rob Hall’s clients, was left for dead as Anatoli Boukreev, one the guides for Scott Fisher’s team, couldn’t find him after he got blown away from the wind. Stuart Hutchinson, one of Rob Hall’s clients, created a team to search for Yasuko Namba and Beck Weathers again. He found them to be surprising alive and made the hard choice of leaving them. Astonishingly, Weathers regained consciousness after being unconscious for more than 12 hours. He then walked back to camp with severe hypothermia and frostbites. After attempting to warm Weathers using two sleeping bags, hot water bottles and an oxygen mask, he was again exposed to the cold after a storm that blew away his sleeping bag and tent. Krakauer looking to check on Weathers one last time was surprised he was still alive after being exposed to the cold for a night along with severe frostbites and hypothermia he was inflicted earlier with. Weathers was then transported to a hospital camp in one of the bases only for the doctor to find out Weathers has been in a very severe condition. He was finally transported to a hospital in Katmandu after a helicopter made a dangerous attempt to pick up him

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