Three decades after the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, Krakauer revisits the legacy of his emotionally jarring, definitive work in conversation with PEOPLE Jon Krakauer reflects on the 1996 Mount ...

Krakauer's 1996 account of McCandless' life and death inspired both the 2007 award-winning film by Sean Penn and the album by Eddie Vedder of the same name The year was 1992. After having lived alone ...

On May 10, 1996, 43 climbers attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. By the following day, five of them were dead. The tragedy—occurring at a time when the commercial guiding business was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Tent in the Everest Base Camp with prayer flags and the Everest mountain peak ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air recounted the tragic incidents on Everest in May 1996, when eight commercial climbers on a summit ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Krakauer and Get Me Out Productions have entered into an agreement to produce a documentary adaptation on Krakauer's ...

On today’s bonus episode of The Press Box, Bryan is joined by bestselling author Jon Krakauer. It’s the 30th anniversary of his book Into Thin Air, so they talk about climbing Mount Everest, the quick ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 A friend’s rape forced Krakauer to rethink his views on sexual assault, and that led him to chronicle what he calls an epidemic of rape at the University of ...