I spent many years chasing down stories in faraway lands like Indonesia, Palestine, Greenland, and Israel. My work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Outside, National Geographic Adventure,...
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I can still hear the buzzing and burping of the fax machine as it started to spit out Jon Krakauer’s first draft of “Into Thin Air.” It was early June 1996, a few weeks after the infamous storm on Mount Everest that killed eight climbers. An editor at Outside magazine, I’d…