into thin air

this book into thin air, is a book that i have been meaning to read for a while, it was first suggested to me by my father about a year ago who said that i would love it, but i never got around to it until now. this book has taken several unexpected turns that i had not anticipated when i began. the story started with the main character already at the summit of Everest and just beginning his dissent. at the end of this chapter the main character ends it with "non of them imagined that a horrible ordeal was drawing nigh. nobody suspected that by the end of that long day, every minute would matter." when i first herd of the book i originally thought that the story was going to be about the clime, and not the dissent, which this last quot led me to believe. then the next chapter the narrator (same person as main character) gave some history about Everest, who climed it first some facts, stuff like that. i thought this was neat because frankly i didnt no anything about Everest except the fact that its the highest mountain in the world. i thought that this was a great way to really show how unforgiving and brutal mount Everest can be, so that throughout the story you can realize how hard the tasks are that the characters are doing.