#jon krakauer

[thoughtkick]

Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

[quotefeeling]

Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

[perfectquote]

Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

[nightlyquotes]

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

[zarifbey]

Ama benim için gerçekten anlamlı olan şeyleri paylaşabildiğim o kadar az insan tanıdım ki, kendi içime çekilmem gerektiğini öğrendim.

Jon Krakauer-Yabana Doğru

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

Have you read Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer (1997)?

yes

no

I've read parts of it

I've never heard of it

Voting ended onFeb 10

[perfectfeelings]

Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

[bennetsbonnet]

I swear Jane Austen haunts me and I encounter her in the most random places. I can never get away from her or her characters for very long...

My mountaineering disaster hyperfixation has lately returned with a vengeance, so I'm finally reading Jon Krakauer's account of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, Into Thin Air. One of the doomed expeditions included Sandy Hill Pittman, a rich socialite, who brought laptops, cameras and had the latest editions of magazines including Vogue brought to her via yak to Base Camp.

Krakauer really hates her and yeah, some of her behaviour is eyebrow-raising but imo he is far too harsh on her (in quite a condescending and misogynistic way... but then he does have a track record of being biased against people he didn't personally like, he did it too with Anatoli Boukreev... but I digress) I mean, she did bring a huge bag of gourmet food (which took four people to lift!) and a television with VCR when climbing in Antarctica... not sure it's hardcore mountaineering but if people are willing to accept her money to do it then is it entirely her fault?

Anyway, this chapter concluded with a comparison of her behaviour to Emma Woodhouse: 'Pittman was heedless of the resentment and scorn she inspired in others; she remained oblivious as Jane Austen's Emma.'

I do feel like Emma realising that she did inspire resentment and scorn in others due to her behaviour is sort of the entire point of the novel, even if Box Hill is no Everest... but anyway.... a firsthand account of a mountaineering disaster is still a very random place to encounter Austen!