Many survivors of the expedition published their own accounts of the tragedy, and it's been the subject of documentaries and reconstructions to determine what happened, and how. It was immediately snapped up for a made-for-television movie the same year called Into Thin Air: Death On Everest. Everest Disaster, which was released the following year. He chronicled the tragedy in his book Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Mt. The expedition was stranded by a sudden blizzard, and eight climbers died in the ascent and descent. “I’m the last person should tell people not to do crazy s**t, but think twice about it,” he said.In 1996, writer and adventurer Jon Krakauer accompanied a group of mountaineers set to summit Mount Everest. Krakauer said Everest is unlike any other mountain, one unusually dangerous even for a sport synonymous with danger and difficulty. Krakauer offered up the admission in response to 11-year-old Tyler Armstrong, who said he is hoping to climb the tallest peaks on each continent – he’s so far done three – and asked for advice on climbing Everest. He wrote about the expedition first in Outside and then in his 1999 book.Ĭhina: Everest shifted 3 centimeters after Nepal quake but remains same height I’m glad I wrote a book about it, but you know, if I could go back and relive my life, I never would have climbed Everest.”įour members of Krakauer’s expedition, along with several climbers from other groups, died in May 1996 after a severe storm roared over the world’s highest peak. “I suffered for years with (post-traumatic stress disorder), still suffer from what happened. “I wish I’d never gone,” he told HuffPost Live last week.
But Jon Krakauer says the ill-fated 1996 Mount Everest expedition he joined as a writer for Outside magazine was the “biggest mistake” of his life.
It’s the subject of perhaps his best-known book, “Into Thin Air,” and the culmination of a childhood dream.
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