Jon Krakauer, the author of “Into Thin ... contributing editor for Outside magazine and author of “Dark Summit: The True Story of Everest’s Most Controversial Season” told TheWrap that ...

Journalist Jon Krakauer sat down with ... he set off to document an Everest climb for amateurs, who had each paid up to $65,000 to be guided to the summit. He never imagined that some of them ...

The purpose of the project, Krakauer ... He climbed Everest with the guiding company Adventure Consultants, which was led by New Zealand mountaineer Rob Hall, and he reached the summit on May ...

“I have news from Jon Krakauer’s wife,” he quietly told some two dozen staffers. “Early in the afternoon, Nepal time, Jon made it to the summit of Everest.” A cheer went up; there were ...

“The ’96 tragedy, Jon Krakauer’s book ... said Alan Arnette, an Everest expert, summit coach and blogger. Those firms typically took small groups, often no more than 10 clients, and brought ...

Outside website describes the scene just below the summit on May 21 It ... of the 1997 bestselling book by Jon Krakauer that details his experience of an Everest disaster the previous year ...

Decades ago, Mount Everest was conquered by a triumph of human spirit. This month, a triumph of ingenuity allowed a group of ...

(CNN) — It’s one of climbing’s greatest mysteries: was Everest really conquered for ... That story is recounted in writer Jon Krakauer’s book “Into Thin Air.” The bad weather angle ...

Jon Krakauer, the American mountaineer ... was sent by Outside magazine on an expedition led by celebrated Everest guide Rob Hall. Despite the expertise of Hall and the other leaders, by the end of ...

After a YouTuber called into question his best-selling book about Mount Everest, Krakauer, 70, launched his own series of videos and essays to defend his work Bestselling author Jon Krakauer is ...