Throughout this year, all of our novels have been designed around a single main character going through some life-changing experience. Into Thin Air follows a similar plot line as Krakauer describes the events that transpired on Everest and the reader is able to see how these events have changed him. Of all the things we have discussed in class, this book most closely relates to our summer reading book Into the Wild and the journey that Chris McCandless goes through.
I also think that Krakauer shares some of the same characteristics of Ernesto in The Motorcycle Diaries. In that novel Ernesto's voyage changes his outlook on life and eventually reshapes the way that he continues his life. Krakauer undergoes a similar transition in Into Thin Air as his experiences on the mountain have surely changed the way that he leads the rest of his life. Unfortunately there is less information on how Krakauer has transformed, but he definitely exhibits a greater respect for life and its fragility.
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