![]() ![]() Worse still, Thin Air is fixated on dull, repetitive imagery – even at times commenting on just how dull and obvious it all is. There is an interesting story here, there really is, but Laver’s prose provides no tension or atmosphere to buoy it along. Laver has certainly done a great deal of research on the novel, though it comes out almost entirely in exposition. Their trip is constantly overshadowed by the detritus and the graves of a previous trip in which four men lost their lives, and the ghosts of that trip, both literal and metaphorical loom heavily over the proceedings. ![]() ![]() The story is fairly straightforward – in 1935 five Englishmen, including two brothers at loggerheads, are determined to climb Kangchenjunga, the third highest peak in the world. Michelle Paver, author of Himalayan ghost story Thin Air? Not so much. Tougher than a lot of people perhaps think they are. I’m a sucker for a great ghost story, but ghost stories are tough to get right. ![]()
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