Into Thin Air Themes

Climbing Mount Everest ain't no walk in the park, people. First you have to deal with the consequences of being so high up in the atmosphere—with so little oxygen in the air, each step is an orde...

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Though there's truth to that statement, we're pretty sure that whoever thought it up never set foot on Mount Everest. See, perseverance is an importan...

These days, it doesn't take much for something to be deemed "awesome." New movie trailer? Awesome. A particularly tasty taco? Double awesome. Still, we'd better keep things straight because nothing...

This one isn't even fair. On one side, we have a horde of mountain climbers: ambitious folks who've put their lives on hold in order to conquer Mount Everest. On the other, we have Everest herself:...

Climbing Mount Everest is already difficult, but it'd be way harder without the use of modern technology. Bottled oxygen helps climbers reach high altitudes without their brains being fried to a cr...

There're no two ways about it: Setting foot on Everest is like playing a gigantic game of Russian roulette. Ominous stuff, huh? In Into Thin Air, we're given a first-hand account of the 1996 Everes...

For over five hundred years, the proud Sherpa people have called the area around Mount Everest home. The community first entered the Himalayas to flee persecution and quickly fell in love with the...

After reading Into Thin Air, we can confidently state that Wale doesn't have anything on Rob Hall and Scott Fischer. These two dudes worked their way up from the bottom of a cutthroat climbing indu...