Into Thin Air

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Monday, June 18, 2001
  • "Doctor on Everest" by Kenneth Kamler

    A physician rides the "Into Thin Air" bandwagon with a grisly account of high-altitude medical disasters.
  • Jon Krakauer

    "Into Thin Air"
  • "Left for Dead: My Journey Home From Everest" by Beck Weathers

    A member of Jon Krakauer's ill-fated Everest expedition gives his version of the spring '96 mountaintop disaster.
  • Did Mallory make it?

    The Everest expedition that triumphantly discovered George Mallory's body wasn't supposed to end like this -- in contradictory accounts and bitter countercharges.
  • A man to match his mountain

    On top of the world: Don George profiles Sir Edmund Hillary, mountain climber, world explorer and Himalayan humanitarian extraordinaire.
  • Everest controversy: Weston DeWalt's latest response

    The co-author of "The Climb" responds to Jon Krakauer's most recent comments in Salon about the Everest tragedy of May 10, 1996.
  • Everest debate, Part Two: Weston DeWalt

    Weston DeWalt, co-author of 'The Climb,' responds to Jon Krakauer's assertions in Dwight Garner's recent Salon article 'Coming down.'
  • Everest Debate, Round Two: Jon Krakauer

    Jon Krakauer, the author of "Into Thin Air," disputes Weston DeWalt's recent comments in Salon and reflects on the role of luck and heroism on Everest.
  • Everest controversy continues

    Weston DeWalt, co-author of 'The Climb,' responds to Jon Krakauer's assertions in Dwight Garner's recent Salon article 'Coming down.'
  • Jon Krakauer responds

    Jon Krakauer rebuts Weston DeWalt's response to Dwight Garner's article about the May 10, 1996, Mount Everest tragedy.

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