Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer

In Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 Mt. Everest Disaster called “Into Thin Air”, Krakauer expresses his disbelief for the fatal accident through various shifts in tone from somber to solemn, or even a journalistic tone. Krakauer places...

Literary theorist and critic Roland Barthes once said, “Literature is the question minus the answer.” In Jon Krakauer's novel Into Thin Air, the author questions if he is loyal enough to his teammates to take the chance of forfeiting his summit...