into thin post three

So far in the book I think there are some parts the Jon Krakaure  had to make up to fill gaps left by his memory or to make the story longer and more interesting.

The first way he does that is by adding background info about Everest. "Hall carped that the Americans were "violating the spirt of the hills" and practicing a shameful form of alpine extortion, but Jim Frush the unsentimental attorney who was the leader of the American group, remained unmoved. Hall eventually agreed through clenched teeth to send Frush a check and was granted passage through the Icefall.  (Frush later reported that hall never made good on his IOU.)"  This dose have to do with the charters but its is not directly about them climbing the Everest. He goes on and does other  little bits of info like that throughout the book.  The whole beginning of the book was about the first people to have climbed Everest not any thing a bout the team or the present day mountain.

Also I think he had to have made up some of it or at least spiced up a couple chapters. For example he could not have know what the other teams were doing at the same time he probably guessed at there actions to make it seem like he knew what was going on and to make the reader feel as if the text is more organized. With all the chaos that went on, on the mountain if it was truly a first hand account it would not have any structure and be hard and boring to read.

I also feel the author prolongs the text with very in-depth sensory details in description. For example "The night had a cold, phantasmal beauty that intensified as we climbed. More stars than I had ever seen smeared the frozen sky. A gibbous moon rose above the shoulder 27,824-foot Makalu, washing the slope beneath my boots in ghostly light, obviating the need for a headlamp. Far the southeast, along the Indian-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal burst of orange and blue lightning."