Into Thin Air Part 2

In my opinion this book is more like a novel. It does remind me of Peak which is a fiction book, but is about the youngest teenager climbing Everest. Want to know about this book, then I will; tell you. In this story is starts with Jon is telling about the climb up to base camp.. He is telling about how someone was evacuated and how people got attitude sickness. It was all about the hardships.

On page 156-157, paragraph 3, I found an example of imagery. This passage is from the part of the story where the teams were leaving Camp Two and going to Camp Three.. “On May 8 both Hall’s team and Fischer’s team departed Camp Two and commenced the grinding ascent of the ropes up the Lhotse Face. Two thousand feet above the floor of the Western Cwm, just below Camp Three, a boulder the size of a small television came rocketing down from the cliffs above and smashed into Andy Harris’s chest. It knocked him off his feet, slammed the wind out of him, and left him dangling from the fixed line in a state of shock for several minutes. Had he not been clipped in with a jumar he would have certainly fallen to his death. I believed that the author was using imagery to show how dangerous Everest is. It is very suspenseful and probably traumatic for the author if he witnessted it.  

I also found imagery, a simile and a flashback. On page 260 paragraph 2 I found imagery. “He turned his attention to Beck, who lay 20 feet away. Beck’s head was also caked with a thick armor of frost. Balls of ice the size of grapes were matted to his hair and eyelids. After clearing the frozen detritus from Beck’s face, Hutchison discovered that the Texan was still alive, too: “Beck was mumbling something, I think, but I couldn’t tell what he was trying to say. His right glove was Was missing and he had terrible frostbit. I tried to get him to sit up but he couldn't. He was as close to death as a person can be and still be breathing.” This is very powerful imagery. Just imagine what this might have been like.