Essay
Instant Everest
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
Macmillan, London, 1997
These days climbers die live.
In Jon Krakauers Into Thin Air, the compelling account of the deaths on Everest in the pre-monsoon season of 1996, two images stuck out as being superbly illustrative of everything that is currently wrong with climbing the highest mountain on earth.