When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in 57 hours and was reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion. As he turned to begin his long, dangerous descent from 29,028...

Into Thin Air

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of...

Into the Wild

No one writes about mountaineering and its attendant victories and hardships more brilliantly than Jon Krakauer. In this collection of his finest essays and reporting, Krakauer writes of mountains from the memorable perspective of one who has himself...

Eiger Dreams

One of the inspirations for the major motion picture Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley.  This is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle ag...

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