An aspect of Into Thin Air that I have really connected to is the power and danger shown by Mount Everest. It gives you a feel for how the climbers must have felt knowing that their certain death was never very far away. This danger and the beauty described by Jon is what has drawn me into the book. The danger is seen right away with him telling about dangerous sections of the climbs and ice crevices that you can fall into. The figurative language he uses is very descriptive, for example, "a three-dimensional landscape of phantasmal beauty". These great, and rather abstract, descriptions allow me to envision what it was like very easily. The thing that I havent connected to so well in the book is the backround information. The first few chapters are all about the history of climbers on Everest and things of that nature. He always links in back to his life though in some weird fashion.
-Tom Burns
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