![]() ![]() ![]() Now a year has passed and he is ready to climb the mountain, and in his book “Into Thin Air” he talks about this climb, its challenges and what it took to make it to the top, he climbed with the help of one of the best head guides, Rob Hall, and other guides including Anatoli Boukreev. During his time trying to write about the article assigned to him for the magazine, his childhood dream came to the surface of his mind once again, and asked his editor if he could pospone the article a year for him to train to climb all the way to the summit and write an even bigger article about Everest, and he agreed. And now that he is an adult was assigned to climb to the base camp of the Everest and write about the current commercialization of the mountain and the climbing agencies that hire guides to help clients who want to climb the mountain reach the summit. Since he was a child he dreamt of climbing Everest. Jon Krakauer is a mountaineer and a writer for the magazine “Outside”. ![]()
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