The Into Thin Air starts off right near the start of the storm, with Jon has just summited and due to low oxygen he does not see the storm as a danger. After the hook the book slows down and takes time building connections to other characters. At first I thought the book went a bit too slow, with it taking two chapter to the mountain and twelve to start for the summit. But the slowness lets you get more acquainted with each character. This also makes the last eight chapters seem like they go lighting fast. The pacing of the book really makes you understand what it must have been like there. With it seeming to take forever to get to the summit push, but when disaster strikes go by in quickly. After reading this I also could kinda understand why Jon criticized Boukreev for going back up to help people. I mean Boukreev was under prepared, but he was a good climber and did save three people. So I kinda agree with Jon that Boureev was a bit unprepared, but he was a bit too harsh on Boukreev. I think that other readers would get the same impression from this book. After all it's really droven home how bad and useless Jon felt and how bad the weather was. I do think that other readers might think that mountain climbing is a terrible experience, because the book focus little on why everyone decided to risk their lives to climb this mountain. So I do think that a uninformed reader might think that anyone is a mad man to climb Everest. But being as the books about one of worst disasters on the mountain it can be understood why the good parts of mountain climbing are shown.