This story is really personal for the author, not just because he witnessed the death of his comrades, but also because he felt guilty about not helping them and just leaving them there to die. However, it is worth mentioning that all climbers experience the unbearable oxygen starvation up there and even oxygen masks do not help. This damages the brain and you start acting like a zombie. You cannot analyze the situation and are driven totally by your instincts. And when there are two lives on the scales – your friend’s one or your own - it is not surprisingly that you will do anything to save yourself. Well,  At least the author is brave enough to talk about that catastrophe on Everest, and even to call himself a coward. I know that after publishing the book Jon Krakauer received hundreds of letters where people were giving calling him names and telling him how bold (<- "brave" might be a better word here) they would be there, which I doubt a lot.

I think the story teaches us to stay to be realistic about our abilities because there are a lot of things we cannot do.

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For Because I am such a huge fan of reading, who I am it’s it was a very hard choice to decide which book to review. After a long deliberations , I eventually chose “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer.

(Note: "It's" is the short version of "it is" or "it has". Because the action of choosing a book happened in the past, you want to use the past tense "it was".)

Jon Krakauer is a famous journalist, well-known for his book “Into The Wild” which is about a young dreamer and idealist who left his middle-class suburban life and literally ran into the bushes. Unfortunately (and the author does feel sorry about it) he ended up in an abandoned bus in the middle of nowhere in Alaska. Before his death, there he suffered severely from starvation and loneliness. 

Krakauer’s other great book that I am going to write about is based on a true story that happened to him in the mid-nineties when he was assigned by the magazine he worked for to take part in the expedition to Everest. The expedition went wrong and five participants died. That earth-shattering accident was brought to the big screens in 2015. There is also the a documentary about it. The plot is quite easy to retell. Jon and other alpinists paid the company's “Adventure Consultants” to climb the highest mountain on the Earth. They were properly trained, and instructed but the weather on the Mount Everest is very unpredictable. There was the a storm and the disaster happened.

(Note: "Brought to the big screen" is the correct way to say this phrase.)