By Jon Krakauer.
This is a rare departure for me – nonfiction! If the author sounds familiar, he also wrote Into the Wild (which I read a few years back).
The fun part of my being able to read this book is that the company I work for has a lending library in the building. Anyone can contribute, borrow or even keep the books left in. I pick one out and read during my lunch hour until it is done, and pick another one. This one I might keep to give to a good friend who is a mountain climber himself.
What a great idea, and I take full advantage of it!
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What did you think of it? I had a pretty emotional reaction to it. It seems madness to me to climb mountains that dangerous.
It is mad – I don’t get it at all. Like I said, we have a friend who climbs smaller-scale places. He fell once and smashed his foot up pretty badly. Didn’t stop him at all. Nutter.
I didn’t get emotional, really – reading it at lunch meant I had to stop every 40 pages or so, no matter what was happening. I also kept thinking about what I was doing at the same time, that I never heard about it at all.
I thought it was a wonderful book, but you’d never catch me climbing Everest – or any other huge snow covered mountain.
Hell, I get nerves climbing some ladders!
I liked learning all the things people have to do to survive up there, in a more in-depth manner than National Geographic can tell in the magazine.
I get vertigo when I look down from any height. When I hike to the top of a mountain, I stay far from the edge and look out and not over.
I am really impressed by the speed you finish books, I am still on my first one for 2017!
That’s why I decided to log them, to see just how much I do read!