The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.
From Jon Krakauer
As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.
When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.
You can get a lawyer with two months off or a New York socialite who wants to play at being Lewis and Clark and put them up there, but Everest is still in charge; it can still kick butt.
The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.
Rob Hall was, without doubt, the most competent guide in mountaineering.
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