Jon Krakauer Wishes He Never Climbed Mount Everest—and Never Wrote Into Thin Air

He wrote a controversial book about a deadly disaster. It became a massive hit. Now he wishes it all would go away.

Jon Krakauer on his Everest climb: 'I wish I'd never gone'

Writer Jon Krakauer was there as a client of Kiwi Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants on assignment for Outside, and the magazine story he turned in became the book Into Thin Air, which immediately ...
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With 'Into Thin Air,' author Jon Krakauer remembers the 1996 Everest disaster

In May 1996, a blizzard struck as multiple climbing teams were attempting to summit Mount Everest. Eight climbers were lost. Journalist Jon Krakauer wrote about the tragedy in his 1997 book " Into ...