In mid-May 1996, eight climbing guides, Sherpas, and their paying clients lost their lives on Mount Everest. A brutal storm ...
In May 1996, a blizzard struck as multiple climbing teams were attempting to summit Mount Everest. Eight climbers were lost.
He wrote a controversial book about a deadly disaster. It became a massive hit. Now he wishes it all would go away.
Sure, advancements in technology guiding techniques have made Mount Everest easier than in the days of Tenzing Norgay and ...
Three decades after the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, Krakauer revisits the legacy of his emotionally jarring, definitive work in conversation with PEOPLE ...
Writer Jon Krakauer was there as a client of Kiwi Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants on assignment for Outside, and the ...
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 ...
Perhaps Everest merely exaggerates something that already exists in sport. The pursuit of prestige has always had the power ...
May 11, 1996, is a day that will live in infamy for mountain climbers everywhere. That's because it was a deadly day for several of the mountaineers who had paid to climb to the mountain's summit.