Yesterday I read Into Thin Air, about a climb to Everest in 1996 and the disaster which ensued. What a great book. I really like Krakauer's style, apparent honesty and humbleness.

I appreciated his afterword where he attempts to explain some of the controversy laid out in The Climb and apologizes for some of the ways he reacted. I agree with Jon...even if you disagree with his recounting, it is a story that needs to be told. Nothing in life is ever remembered or recounted correctly. For evidence of this, just watch Rashomon or read any of the numerous sanctimonious and self-serving political memoir