Author Jon Krakauer, who chronicled the 1996 disaster on Mount Everest in his bestselling book Into Thin Air, told HuffPost Live on Thursday that he deeply regrets ever embarking on climbing the ...

R eleased in 1997 the year after he was part of a disastrous Mount Everest expedition that resulted in eight climbers being ...

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air recounted the tragic incidents on Everest in May 1996, when eight commercial climbers on a summit push died in a storm. Krakauer, an experienced journalist ...

Though Jason Clarke and Jake Gyllenhaal lead an A-list cast in Everest, the real star of the ... When EW's writer asked him about Krakauer's bestseller, Kormákur was dismissive.

“Everest” is based on the true events of ... reported and documented in books such as “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer, which is one of the key sources for both the movie and the ...

An adaptation of Jon Krakauer's best selling book, "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster". It attempts to recreate the disastrous events that took place during the Mount ...

Jon Krakauer’s latest book, 'Classic Krakauer,' is a collection of his 10 best essays and magazine stories, many from the 1990s.