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

If this book doesn't make you want to never attempt to climb Mt. Everest I don't know what will. Also, I'm slightly (understatement) disturbed that there are pictures of Hall's body in the rock hollow described in the book online.

If you descended Everest without supplemental oxygen doesn't that count for something? The descent is the hardest part after all .

The pictures of (most of) the people that died just hurts. (Also not at all how I imagined any of them to look.)

When I was told this book was slightly disturbing I wasn't expecting that.(I'm glad I didn't read that while I was working.) "For the next 48 hours, Silver, Hunt, and Litch took turns pumping oxygen into Ngawang's lungs with the ambu bag... When secretions built up... Down the Shepas throat, Hunt would suck the tub clear with her mouth... By mid-June Ngawang would be dead, leaving behind a wife and four daughters..."