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The novel Into Thin Air, written by Jon Krakauer, has a variety of themes throughout the tragic account, but one seems to stay constant throughout. During the entire climb up and descent down the almighty Mt. Everest, the climbers and their sherpas must be able to trust and care for one another or the mission to reach the summit and come back down alive will be failed. They must also have a certain degree of loyalty to one another as well in order to survive. The teammates do this and more as the going gets tougher and tougher on the 29,028 ft. peak. After everyone had reached the top of Mt. Everest, the hard part had just begun, as a brutal blizzard was hammering the descending mountaineers. Rob Hall, who was the leader of Krakauer’s group, had waited two hours pas