Comparing Krakauer's Thumb 'And Everest'

Perhaps there is one thing everyone needs to feel accomplished whether that is earning a Master’s Degree or maybe even climbing a mountain. John Krakauer’s and Erik Weihenmeyer’s memoirs of their mountain climbing experiences presented in “The Devils Thumb” and “Everest” show different perspectives and different reasons on why they set out to climb these towering mountains. Both hikers followed their dream while not caring about the countenance of others. The assiduous men set out to climb two different mountains and they both had earned a different outcome out of their accomplishment through the use of tone, perspective, and word choice. Climbing these mountains, one hiker was expecting the accomplishment to change his life while the other hiker was doing it to inspire others.
In “The Devils Thumb”, John Krakauer had a penchant for climbing this
In “Everest”, Erik and his men were having a bit of trouble, but they didn’t give up. They were extremely motivated to get to the top as evident in the lines, “The job was quickly wearing Jeff down, but he said later that with each gasping breath as he heaved the rope free, he envisioned the two of us standing on top together. Soon he was beginning to feel faint and dizzy. As he knelt in the snow, Brad, behind him, examined his oxygen equipment and assessed that his regulator, connecting the long tube of his mask to his bottle, had malfunctioned. The internal valves responsible for regulating flow were notoriously prone to freezing shut. “Who’s got an extra regulator? Brad called out over the radio, but tired bodies and brains could not recall who had thrown in the extras in the presubmit shuffle.” In that part of the memoir, they were searching for an extra regulator for the man who needed one, who was Jeff. The words used like “heaved” and “tired” show that the tone is realistic and