... educating the reader of the background of the mountain and events leading up to what happened in the first chapter. Krakauer does a good job of explaining how the highest point on earth was discovered with a short history lesson on Everest. Krakauer writes of the many expeditions that scaled Everest and how over the years the attempts were becoming more for the wealthy ... author to join a team to climb Everest. He writes for Outsider magazine and was offered a cheap price to achieve his life goal in return for substantial advertisement in the magazine. Krakauer retells his Everest acco...

• Word Count: 721
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

... the book. These are used by the same and different people through out the book. Some are used by almost everybody involved with the circumstances. Jon Krakauer generally showed most of these because he was the one telling the story, but the people he displayed how other people were feeling through what he saw ... The first body had left me badly shaken for several hours; the shock of encountering the second wore off almost immediately."" (Pg. 139) This demonstrates how Jon is finally realizing that it has affected him and he did keep going, but at the same time he is almost getting used ...

• Word Count: 1058
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School