Into Thin Air #2

The voice of this Author (Jon Krakauer) is a very stern, serious and intent. The way he wrote this story is never joking or being sarcastic. He's setting the mood that is mellow yet intense. The details make you get really into exactly what was happening. That causes the beginning of the book project a weariness of an upcoming disaster. When it's only 5 chapters in and he is already mentioning that most of the group is having trouble functioning. That alone already spells trouble. To top it off someone from the group falls and has to be helicoptered off the mountain. He also gets very technical. I mentioned before that there were a lot of details but the kinds of details are a big variety. There is imagery. Ex. "speckled the boulder-strewn ice". But there is also lost of details like exact dates, times and expenses. Those details really paint how much planning and preparing it takes to even get to some of the lower base camps. It makes you think about every little detail that had to be put in place at the right time. He remembers so much about the beginning of the expedition. Without that detail it would have been much harder to set the tone. Every person he describes is important but there seems to be a lot of people that were vaguely described and very briefly. It's hard to keep track of who is where and how he knows them. There is so much skipping around that the stories are getting mixed up. May be the author wanted you to connect all the stories towards the end. Maybe there is a message that connects everything together at the end. I really hope things get a little more clear. It's like he is talking to us about what happened but takes a brake every few minutes and has someone else talk for a while then comes back and starts somewhere slightly different.