Into+Thin+Air+Characters

Characters

==== Copy and paste all these character names onto a blank page. Then, find an image to go along with them. Then, choose THREE characters and create a CHARACTER PROFILE including as much information as you can about each person. ====

====**Jon Krakauer** - This character is an avid climber and a journalist, and is accompanying the expedition on assignment from Outside Magazine to write about the growing business of commercial climbing. He lives in Seattle with his wife. He is 41 at the time of the climb. ====

====**Rob Hall** - This character is the leader of Adventure Consultants, the commercial guiding service that the author signs up with to scale Everest. 35 at the time of the climb, he is a friendly New Zealander. He is thin and very tall. ====

====**Andy Harris** - This character is one of the guides on the expedition. He dies high on the mountain, apparently in an attempt to take emergency oxygen to others. ====

**Ang Dorje Sherpa** - This person is the lead climbing Sherpa on Hall's Adventure Consultant's team.

====**Yasuko Namba** - This person is a Japanese executive and avid climber. She does reach the summit of Everest, but is with a group of climbers who lose their way while returning to Camp Four in the heightening storm. ====

====**Scott Fischer** - This person is the guide of the Mountain Madness commercial guide service. He has a severe liver condition that he keeps secret from most people, which gives him episodes of malaria-like symptoms. ====

====**Anatoli Boukreev** - This person is an elite climber, but does not take on the role of a traditional guide, often climbing well ahead of, or behind clients, and sometimes not carrying essential gear such as rope and first aid equipment. ====

====**Beck Weathers** - This person is a conservative Texan physician in his 50's. Climbing to high altitudes leaves him practically blind because of complications from previous eye surgery. Unable to continue the ascent, this person waits to be guided back to Camp Four and is among the group that becomes lost. ====

====**Doug Hansen** - This person is a postal worker who attempted to climb Everest in 1995. Hall has convinced him to try again, and has reduced his fee for Hansen.He runs out of oxygen shortly after beginning the descent. ====

====**Neal Beidleman** - This person is one of the guides on Fischer's Mountain Madness team. He is among the climbers who get lost while descending to Camp Four. Arranging them in a huddle, he manages to get those who could still walk, back to the camp during a slight break in the storm. ====

====**Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa** - This person is the lead climbing Sherpa on the Mountain Madness team. Devoted to the team leader, this person stays with him while he is debilitated above Camp Four. ====

= Here's a Diagram to help you understand the relationships between the people in the book.  =