Into Thin Air has been some what difficult to follow the story. The author jumps around a lot in his story telling, from telling the story of where he is right then (like at base camp) to when he's at the summit and can see the storm rolling in to more back round information than anyone could ever want to know about the sherpas and other people climbing. All the information gets very confusing and jumbled up in my head which usually results in having to read the same page (or even paragraph) multiple times.
Although, some of the back round information told is super duper interesting. There was one particular story about when Scott Fischer was climbing a frozen cascade called Bridal Veil Falls in Utah's Provo Canyon where he was racing two expert climbers. Fischer lost his grip at 100 feet up and plummeted to the ground. To the amazement of everyone who witnessed the scene, he got up and walked away with only minor injuries. This same sort of thing actually happened to Scott multiple times, falling from higher than 80 ft up and leaving with very few injuries. This may wound weird, but I feel some sort of "special connection" to Scott Fischer. 1. We share the last name (although it is spelt differently) 2. Bridal Veil Falls is in Utah (where I live), I've seen this water fall many times and if I remember correctly, my dad may have actually ice climbed there once.
Although, some of the back round information told is super duper interesting. There was one particular story about when Scott Fischer was climbing a frozen cascade called Bridal Veil Falls in Utah's Provo Canyon where he was racing two expert climbers. Fischer lost his grip at 100 feet up and plummeted to the ground. To the amazement of everyone who witnessed the scene, he got up and walked away with only minor injuries. This same sort of thing actually happened to Scott multiple times, falling from higher than 80 ft up and leaving with very few injuries. This may wound weird, but I feel some sort of "special connection" to Scott Fischer. 1. We share the last name (although it is spelt differently) 2. Bridal Veil Falls is in Utah (where I live), I've seen this water fall many times and if I remember correctly, my dad may have actually ice climbed there once.
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| This is Bridal Veil Falls |
Over the weekend I was babysitting and after I put the kids to bed I began to read my book (I was no where near half way) and when the parents came home it turned out the dad read Into Thin Air too. We then began to discuss the book and he said it's one of his favorite books and he read it in just two days! (I think I'm going on week 4 of reading this book and I'm just barely half way.) He also said it was one of the most intriguing adventure novels he's ever read, which led me to think, there must be an abundance of adventure to come; because so far there's been altitude sickness, stories of other climbers and basic plot, nothing to exciting... yet.
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