Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air recounted the tragic incidents on Everest in May 1996, when eight commercial climbers on a summit ...

On May 10, 1996, 43 climbers attempted to reach the summit of Mount Everest. By the following day, five of them were dead. The tragedy—occurring at a time when the commercial guiding business was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image collage containing 2 images, Image 1 shows Tent in the Everest Base Camp with prayer flags and the Everest mountain peak ...

The year was 1992. After having lived alone for months in an abandoned Fairbanks City Transit System bus along the Stampede Trail outside of Healy, Alaska, 24-year-old Chris McCandless was growing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Krakauer and Get Me Out Productions have entered into an agreement to produce a documentary adaptation on Krakauer’s ...

L.A.-based unscripted prodco Get Me Out Productions and bestselling author Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air) have entered an agreement to produce a documentary adaptation expanding on the ...

A new FX mini-series adapts the investigative book by Jon Krakauer. He and the creator, Dustin Lance Black, talked about their efforts to get at the truth. By Austin Considine A selection of recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jon Krakauer joins Saturday TODAY to talk about his bestselling book "Into Thin Air" where he writes about surviving an expedition ...

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 ...

The book’s success led to a film adaptation by Sean Penn and an album by Eddie Vedder that solidified McCandless' legacy as a polarizing icon of modern adventuring The year was 1992. After having ...