Q2 Post 3

In chapters 5 and 6 of Into Thin Air the group travels up to the 17,000 ft base camp. Within a few days after arriving, some of the members of Krakuer's group get sick. Krakauer gets altitude sickness himself and is worried. He talks to Rob Hall, the guide, about it and how he feels he doesn't have enough experience to climb. Hall says not to worry about it and that it doesn't take much experience, and from this I think more that Hall is more reckless and thinks he can do anything or guide anyone to the top of the tallest mountain. Krakauer also introduces the legendary Scott Fischer. Fischer was another guide guiding a different group on the same dates, and he knew Hall well. Hall had beat out Fischer's offer to Outside magazine, the magazine Krakauer wrote for and who was sponsoring his trip, to send Krakauer on their trip, but that didn't cause any hard feelings betwixt any of the three men. Krakauer tells of Fischers incredible strength and drive. He was always known for his endurance and his ability to ignore pain and continue up the mountain. When Fischer worked at NOLS, he worked out so hard in the gym everyday that he would throw up after every work out. He has also been know as a survivor. He has fallen 70 and 100 feet to the ground and got up virtually unhurt, except on one of these falls an ice axe punctured his calf, and he had a clean hole there for several months until it healed, but he still had a massive scar there he showed Krakauer. Even so, that type of injury isn't too bad, considering that he should've died on each fall. Its events like these that cemented Fischer's status as a legend.