Into Thin Air Blog Post #4

I felt sad about the deaths of Jon Krakuer's friends and the way he kind of implied that he felt almost guilty about their deaths. I really felt as though when he made a mistake in describing Andy Harris' death, he tried to clear it up and show that he was really sorry for messing up. I think if I tried to write a book about something that was that tragic. I wouldn't be able to finish writing. He wrote about everything easier in the beginning of the book and then at the end he got to the sad part. I feel like that's where I would have had to stop writing because it would have become too overwhelming. I think writing a book about something this meaningful had to be one of the hardest things he did after the accident was over. I think writing about the deaths of friends or anybody even has to be such a hard emotional process. I saw a documentary once when I was little about the same kind of thing happening to some climbers on K2 called the "2008 K2 Disaster" and when I first read this book I thought it would be kind of like what happened but on Everest there was a real reason and on K2 people died because of getting lost, not smart of choices and avalanches, and pretty much a whole array of reasons. On Everest there was one reason, The Storm, that everyone died. so I felt as though even the two are remarkably related at the same time they are completely different. I now realize that when I tried to connect the two accidents I hadn't finished Into Thin Air yet and now that I have finished it the two accidents seem really different, and the reason I tried to compare them is because Everest is the highest mountain on earth and K2 is the second highest mountain. I can now think of them separately and know the differences in my mind because they are two very different situations and I can see that now.