Into Thin Air

This book was a very difficult read.

This book had been lauded to me as a nonfic that read like a thriller and I can say that it does live up to it. The first half of the book is fairly tame by necessity, as it needs to introduce a lot of the people involved and impart a lot of technical knowledge for you to understand the rest of it, and it doesn't really pick up until around Chapter 14, I think? When they reach the summit. The details of the disaster were absolutely gut-wrenching to read though, and this is the type of book that will sit heavily on you.

My only complaint, which might be entirely on me, is that I found it hard to keep track of all the names in the second half of the book. The writer chose to refer to almost all of them by last names, many of which were similar, so I got characters confused a lot, but this didn't take away any of the tension and punch of the story.

A very heavy read. I'm definitely going to need a little break from nonfic after this.