Jon Krakauer, author and climber, is employed by Outside Magazine to write down an article about the commercialism on Mt. Everest. Krakauer joins the most fatal Mount Everest expedition in history. Krakauer joins the climbing service referred to as adventure Consultants, guided by Rob Hall. The guide service is meant to speed up the adjustment method and guide the climbers with success to the summit of Mt. Everest. The climb is broken into camps: Base Camp, Camp One, Camp Two, Camp three and Camp Four. After spending weeks at Base Camp preparing for the gruesome climb ahead, the group makes several journeys up to the other camps to hurry up the adjustment method. Then, the group makes a summit push. Throughout the climb, Krakauer describes …show more content…
The climbers' experience in mountain climbing varies greatly from some well qualified cambers, and some who must rely dominantly on the guides. Despite a variety of mishaps, the primary death doesn't truly occur until about hafway through the book. From that time on, death is something all the climbers become well acquainted with. The actual summit push is when everything begins to collapse. Rob Hall appoints a 2:00 pm turn-around time, which means that everybody who has not truly reached the summit by then should turn around, no matter how close he or she is. That day, only Krakauer and a couple of other climbers make it to the top before 2:00 pm. The other members of his group reach the top as late as 4:00 pm, despite the 2:00 pm turnaround time. Among the later arrivals to the top is Rob Hall and another member, Doug Hansen. They arrive just behind another climbing group guided by Scott Fischer. A storm hits the summit that afternoon, and Krakauer catches only the tail end of it before he successfully reaches the refuse of Camp Four. Hall and Hansen get stranded, Hansen runs out of supplemental oxygen and can't