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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, and Best American Travel Writing, and many other publications.  What follows is the transcription of an interview with Kristin Pazulski of…

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…