#jonkrakauer — Public Fediverse posts

Early May 1996 is a time that is seared into the memories of mountaineers across the globe. Eight climbers who were caught in a blizzard high on Mount Everest died in one of the worst disasters the climbing world had ever seen. It was also the best-documented. Writer Jon Krakauer was part of a guided expedition covering his experience for Outside magazine and later wrote the bestselling book “Into Thin Air.” Thirty years later, Krakauer sat down with @NationalGeographic’s Grayson Schaffer and reflected on the disaster, why he wishes he’d never have gone, and the current state of Everest climbing:

https://flip.it/Xc11aK

#Culture #MountEverest #Mountaineering #Climbing #IntoThinAir #JonKrakauer

Early May 1996 is a time that is seared into the memories of mountaineers across the globe. Eight climbers who were caught in a blizzard high on Mount Everest died in one of the worst disasters the climbing world had ever seen. It was also the best-documented. Writer Jon Krakauer was part of a guided expedition covering his experience for Outside magazine and later wrote the bestselling book “Into Thin Air.” Thirty years later, Krakauer sat down with @NationalGeographic’s Grayson Schaffer and reflected on the disaster, why he wishes he’d never have gone, and the current state of Everest climbing:

https://flip.it/Xc11aK

#Culture #MountEverest #Mountaineering #Climbing #IntoThinAir #JonKrakauer

Jon Krakauer on his Everest climb: ‘I wish I’d never gone’

Nobody goes there. It’s almost suicidal. She was there with the world’s best climbers, Steve Swenson and Alex.…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #1996Everestdisaster #Books #DeathsonMountEverest #Everestclimb #Everestdisaster #IntoThinAir #IntoThinAiranniversary #JonKrakauer #MountEverest #mountaineering #World
https://www.newsbeep.com/528591/

20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers (don’t forget the alt text).

Day 4/20

#20books #20books20days #bookstodon #JonKrakauer #IntoThinAir

Classic Krakauer Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mt. Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of greater Seattle at any moment; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherwordly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars...

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Classic Krakauer Essays on Wilderness and Risk by Jon Krakauer

Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these articles take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mt. Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of greater Seattle at any moment; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherwordly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars...

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Now reading #IntoTheWild. Loved the film but never got around to the book. #JonKrakauer is rightfully ambivalent about Chris’s wide-eyed, solipsistic, nature-mania but also clearly wants to get to talking about himself, which feels a touch invasive… still, he writes well & there’s lots of quotes from #Walden which fits my current location #travel #alaska #bookstadon

Jon Krakauer wrote and published the book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. The book was made into a television series starring Andrew Garfield on FX of the same name, Under the Banner of Heaven. The church tried to silence the book before the show was even a thought but the author had a poignant response that shows he really does understand the church.

https://wasmormon.org/church-bristles-about-under-the-banner-of-heaven/

#exmormon #BannerOfHeaven #mormon #lds #propaganda #utboh #JonKrakauer #exmo #lafferty #cult

#Books and me:

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72 - #HunterSThompson
Snow Crash - #NealStephenson
I Am Legend - #RichardMatheson
The Baroque Cycle - #NealStephenson
Perdido Street Station - #ChinaMiéville
Under The Banner of Heaven - #JonKrakauer
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West - #CormacMcCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five - #KurtVonnegutJr
The Crying of Lot 49 - #ThomasPynchon
If He Hollers Let Him Go - #ChesterHimes

I could go on and on....

#Books and me:

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72 - #HunterSThompson
Snow Crash - #NealStephenson
I Am Legend - #RichardMatheson
The Baroque Cycle - #NealStephenson
Perdido Street Station - #ChinaMiéville
Under The Banner of Heaven - #JonKrakauer
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West - #CormacMcCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five - #KurtVonnegutJr
The Crying of Lot 49 - #ThomasPynchon
If He Hollers Let Him Go - #ChesterHimes

I could go on and on....