Q2 post 4

For post 4 I read chapters seven and eight of Into Thin Air. In this section the author talks about inexperience in the other teams climbers at base camp, such as the teams from South Africa, Taiwan and a solo Norwegian climber. He thinks that these groups are foolish and will probably get into trouble high on the mountain and that his group will have to go save them and ruin their opportunity of reaching the top.  Rob Hall also agrees with him and says, "I think it's pretty unlikely that we'll get through this season without something bad happening up high." (p. 100).  If I didn't know how the book ended, then I would see this as some major foreshadowing, which is another reason why I find Krakauer's journalistic style of writing annoying. This section makes me think that Krakauer learned something from his experience writing Into the Wild and researching Chris McCandless. From that experience, he learned how unprepared and unexperienced Chris was, and how he didn't realize what he was getting himself into when he went to Alaska. He now writes the same ideas in Into Thin Air about the South Africans, Taiwanese, and the Norwegian. He learned that ignorance can lead to terrible things, and I would've expected him to try and stop the groups because of what he learned from Chris' story.