https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir Padlet by Ian Halpin en-us 2017-10-27 13:28:34 UTC 2017-11-06 14:24:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41hvFIokIaL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201189397 2017-10-27 13:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201189397 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190254 "I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care." (Krauker)]]> 2017-10-27 13:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190254 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190319  I think this quote is very important because it shows that he wasn't just in it for himself. He climbed the worlds tallest mountain and he still isn't happy because so many of the people he got to know, died. This adventure didn't go as he truly planned because he said once he was finally up there he didn't feel  enough energy to care. It's like if you were playing in a baseball game and you hit three home runs but your'e team lost. Not everything is always about your'e self. Plus he had to be so tired from climbing almost 30,000 feet, that when he got there he just couldn't think about where he actually was.]]> 2017-10-27 13:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190319 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190511 2017-10-27 13:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190511 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190623 The symbol that I chose is a unprepared child. Jon and the New Zealand team were not prepared to climb up the mountain. Which resulted in many casualties and if they were prepared it probably would've gone a different way. One time they ran out of oxygen and had climb a far way down just to refill and then go back up. They were also unprepared for the lack of air changing their mind sets, so then a few people had to redo there harness and they ended up dead like Andy.]]> 2017-10-27 13:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201190623 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201198622 /* Starred Review */ And onto thin  ice--Krakauer's (Into  the Wild, 1995) hypnotic, rattling, firsthand account of a commercial expedition up Mt. Everest that went way  wrong. In the spring of 1996, Krakauer took an assignment from Outside magazine to report on the burgeoning industry of commercially guided, high-altitude climbing. Many experienced alpinists were dismayed that the fabled 8,000-meter summits were simply "being sold to rich parvenues" with neither climbing grace nor talent, but possessed of colossal egos. From childhood, Krakauer had wanted to climb Everest; he was an expert on rock and ice, although he had never sojourned at Himalayan altitudes. While it has become popular to consider climbing Everest a lark and the South Col approach little more than a yak route, Krakauer found the altitude a malicious force that turned his blood to sludge and his extremities to wood, that ate his brain cells. Much of the time he lived in a hypoxic stupor, despite the standard acclimatization he underwent. As he tells of his own struggles, he plaits his tale with stories of his climbing comrades, describes the often outrageous characters on other expeditions, and details the history of Everest exploration. The writing builds eerily, portentously to the summit day, fingering little glitches that were piling up, "a slow accrual, compounding imperceptibly, steadily toward critical mass," when a rogue storm overtook the climbers; typical by Everest standards, it was ferocious in the extreme. Time collapses as, minute-by-minute, Krakauer rivetingly and movingly chronicles what ensued, much of which is near agony to read. Unjustly, Krakauer holds himself culpable for aspects of the disaster, but this book will serve an important purpose if it gives even one person pause before tackling Everest. A brilliantly told story, and one that won't go begging when the year's literary honors are doled out. (Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 1997)

]]> 2017-10-27 13:57:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201198622 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201213677 I disagree with the book the review. I think that his details are accurate but I didn't agree with his standing on the book. He really enjoyed the book and thought that it was entertaining. I thought the book was very boring until about the last 50 pages. There was a lot of down time about them just climbing or sitting around. I didn't really like the book.]]> 2017-10-27 14:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/201213677 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/202179600 A big conflict was when they were running out of air. The air tanks were low and they were unprepared. They didn't have any extra air. Loss of air caused a huge set back and it also caused injurys and death.]]> 2017-10-31 15:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/202179600 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/202181832 I think this had a big impact because the conflict caused death. It was also a big impact because you need air to survive so when they ran out it was a big problem. They also had to scale back the mountain to get more air tanks which was a dangerous climb down and then they had to go back up the mountain. I think this was one of the biggest conflicts.]]> 2017-10-31 15:10:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/202181832 hal07988 https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/202183919 2017-10-31 15:14:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hal07988/IntoThinAir/wish/202183919