"Climbing Mount Everest was the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. I wish I'd never gone," Krakauer said. "I suffered ...

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 ...

To Kill a Mockingbird’ Set in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel is a ...

It’s coming up on a decade now since renowned adventure writer Jon Krakauer published a book. And at 70, and with several best-sellers under his belt, he’s earned the right to put down the pen ...

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

Many of its contributors — from Jon Krakauer and Hampton Sides to Jimmy Chin and Tommy Caldwell — have become iconic authors, photographers, and athletes. Now, some of those icons have asked ...