Into Thin Air Resources

Websites

An Interactive Tour of Everest

This website, created in part by David Breashears (who's featured in the book), gives an amazing perspective into life on Everest, no visit to the Death Zone required.

Adventure Consultants

This is the website for Rob Hall's mountain guiding company, which continues to lead clients to the summit of Everest to this day.

Movie or TV Productions

Everest (2015)

Okay, so this big budget adaptation of Into Thin Air might not exactly be accurate, but it sure makes up for it with CGI avalanches.

Everest Trailer

Don't believe us? Just check out this trailer and prepare for your brain to be melted.

Articles and Interviews

Something Happened

This piece, written by the editor who assigned Krakauer to the Everest article, provides some fascinating insight into the events.

An Interview with Jon Krakauer

This interview with Jon Krakauer touches on many of the more controversial aspects of Into Thin Air.

An Interview with Sandy Hill

In contrast, check out this interview with Sandy Hill (then known as Sandy Pittman), in which she offers a more critical viewpoint toward the book.

Video

Everest's Summit

Want to experience the feeling of standing atop Everest without leaving your house? Praise be to YouTube. Make some hot cocoa and travel from the safety of your couch.

Reinhold Messner on the Anatoli Boukreev Controversy

This fascinating chat with climbing legend Reinhold Messner covers the controversy over Boukreev's decision to forgo the use of bottled oxygen.

Audio

David Breashears on the 1996 Everest Disaster

In this chat with NPR, climber and director David Breashears gives his perspective on the disaster that unfolds in Into Thin Air.

David Breashears on the 2015 Everest Disaster

Here's another account from David Breashears. This time he's discussing the 2015 Everest disaster, which killed over twenty people.

Images

Mount Everest

Wow. That's pretty much all we can say about this one.

The South Col Route

This diagram roughly depicts the route that Krakauer and company took while ascending Mount Everest.