Dan’s Reviews > Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster > Status Update

I was hoping to finish this last weekend when the weather was still cold, but finishing while we drive through the mountains is fitting in its own right (not that the Smokies compare much to the Himalayas).

“it had taken them more than ten hours to move down a stretch of ridge that was typically covered by descending climbers in less than half an hour.” Me that time I had a low blood sugar attack so bad that it to took me 45 minutes to reach into my desk drawer and shove a handful of kettle corn into my mouth.

Cannot believe I have to pretend to work at my job when there's nothing to do while disaster is about to strike on Everest.

Krakauer really excels at building suspense. Also, a few of these high-altitude ailments seem a lot like how I feel when my blood sugar crashes.