Essays on Into Thin Air

In the book Into thin air by Jon Krakauer, there is a constant theme of survival and danger, however, I cannot agree with the statement ‘To survive is to encounter one’s true identity,’ as during survival, our brain activates what psychologists call the ‘monkey mode’ where the brain just focuses on the survival in a...

Title: Into Thin Air Author: Jon Krakauer Date of Publication: 1977 Genre: Non-fiction Biographical Information about the Author: Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountain climber. He is the author of Into the Wild & Into Thin Air & Under the Banner of Heavenand Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman as...

The first chapter of “Into Thin Air” sets the story near the middle of the book. It can be understood that the narrator of the book is Jon Krakauer. Krakauer describes himself on top of Mount Everest with “one foot in China and the other in Nepal”(5). He describes how the journey to get to...