outside reading final post

In the last part of the climbers' journey, they experience confusion, chaos, and cold. Many of the climbers die or get frostbitten. This end is caused by many reasons. The leaders, Hall and Fischer, are competing to see who can more climbers to summit so their business can look better. They are blinded by this drive and don't pay attention to other factors like hypoxia which makes the climber delusional. This happens to many climbers, and results in mistaking full oxygen tanks as empty, a critical mistake that breaks the possible outcome of survival for a couple climbers. Krakauer makes these speculations himself, and I find the accusations against Hall and Fischer a bit harsh. I don't think what Krakauer thinks is true. The number one priority on a mountain guide's list is safety, even if it means the team must turn around and not summit. Even if they are 100 feet from the summit. The disaster on Everest affected Krakauer emotionally, and for this reason he is harsh and rash in his blames. He may never leave behind the tragedies that occured on the mountain. He wonders whether the glory of reaching the summit was worth what else happened on the mountain, and other questions like that, and is very depressed about what happened and his decisions, some within his control, some not within his control. I think that an experience like that should change someone forever. Krakauer was changed. It comes clear in other books of his I've read and interviews I've seen, in that he is more like an parent, more careful in his life and views than his younger days as a mountain and rock climber.