Jon Krakauer
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Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of P
Krakauer in 2016
Krakauer in 2009
1996 Mount Everest disaster
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On 10–11 May 1996, eight climbers were caught in a blizzard and died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over that season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit. These de
Jon Krakauer
…Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air. Krakauer was born in Brookline…
Camp IV at the South Col, looking upward at the summit of Everest.
Ang Dorje Sherpa
Anatoli "Toli" Boukreev
A memorial chorten for Rob Hall, Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, and Yasuko Namba