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 ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Three decades after the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, Krakauer revisits the legacy of his emotionally jarring, definitive work in ...

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The year was 1992. After having lived alone for months in an abandoned Fairbanks City Transit System bus along the Stampede Trail outside of Healy, Alaska, 24-year-old Chris McCandless was growing ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Best-selling author Jon Krakauer has built a reputation on gripping portrayals of those who push their physical limits. But now the writer has set his sights on spiritual extremes, ...

Jon Krakauer and Get Me Out Productions have entered into an agreement to produce a documentary adaptation on Krakauer’s nonfiction book, “Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, ...

A new FX mini-series adapts the investigative book by Jon Krakauer. He and the creator, Dustin Lance Black, talked about their efforts to get at the truth. By Austin Considine A selection of recent ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - The University of Montana's bookstore has 500 copies ordered of Jon Krakauer's book called Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town. The bookstore will be putting ...

Krakauer tells NPR's Rachel Martin that the whole thing started when he found out someone close to him had been raped. "This was a young woman whose life seemed to be going great," he says. "She had a ...

It’s been 30 years since Jon Krakauer survived one of the worst disasters on Mount Everest. But every spring, when climbing season on the world’s tallest peak hits, he still worries. “I get this knot ...