“Like Touching the Void rewritten by Jack London, Thin Air is a heart-freezing masterpiece.” “Eerie, unsettling… gets under your skin” No moral relativism here, but lots of action, great characters and a nice big mountainous metaphor rearing above it all. It’s scary, but in a reassuringly old-fashioned way. Paver’s style is lively and clear, and the tale just rips along. The peak is unclimbable for reasons other than geography. Her depictions of its dangers are terrifyingly deathlike, too, and the growing menace of the high-altitude phantom is horrible. “Michelle Paver’s descriptions of Himalayan mountain-climbing are terrifyingly lifelike - the lashing winds, glittering ice: you can see it all. “This vivid ghost story reads like a classic”
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