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

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 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 ...

After another round of layoffs at Outside Magazine, a group of well-known writers and photographers have excoriated its parent company for abandoning "bold journalism." ...

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