The Himalayas, 1935.
Kangchenjunga. The sacred mountain. Biggest killer of them all.
Five Englishmen set out to conquer it. But courage can only take them so far. And the higher they climb, the darker it gets.
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(Orion, 6 October 2016, 240 pages, ebook, A Year Of @EpicReads 2019, a book set in a country you want to visit, owned, ebook from @AmazonKindle)
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I've read a few of Paver's books before and tend to enjoy them so I was really looking forward to reading this book. I was not disappointed. I loved Thin Air and wish it was another couple of hundred pages longer. Thin Air is perfectly paced and every line is packed with tension and suspense. At times I felt like I was on the mountain with the men. I loved the fact the book is narrated by one character which makes what's going on even more intense. The book is labelled as a ghost story but it's one of those books where it's not clear if something supernatural is going on or if the events are due to mountain sickness. I loved the ending as well, in some ways it was predictable but it still took me by surprise because of the suddenness of what happens. Thin Air is fantastic. I now need to read all of Paver's books that I haven't read.
