Review: I've never met a Hugh Howey story I haven't liked
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2014
Hugh Howey can do no wrong in my opinion.  This is the first story that I shelved under 2014-faves this year because it was really that good.  At only 18 pages it’s amazing that Hugh can pull you into a story so quickly and fully.  I actually found there were times that I was holding my breath through reading it just because of what the MC was going through.  It made me want to turn the heat up in my apartment and wrap myself in as many blankets as possible.  He just made it that real.  The whole story is about a climb up a nameless mountain where no one has ever reached the peak, on another planet, that is essentially 40k feet higher that the tallest above ground mountain on Earth.  That being the case, the physical and mental hardships that are presented are completely legitimate and really pull you right along with the climbers.  The ending was perfect for this story and was epically tragic just how I like it.