Conflicts

In the book Into Thin Air the main conflict in the book is not people, but Mount Everest itself. In the first chapter it explains how much of a toll it took on Krakauer to reach the summit, and his effected thought process from the lack of oxygen. Six climbers end up dying from the bone chilling tempurature, snow, and lack of oxygen. For these reasons most of the conflicts in the book are external. These conflicts and eventual deaths in a sense were brought apon by the climbers themselves. Most people know that death is never far away when you are climbing, especially on Mount Everest. The climbers knew that they all had a chance of not coming back home. However, they cannot control the weather on the mountain so it is out of their hands too.