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The Takeout with Major Garrett

Jon Krakauer, Author of "Into Thin Air" on the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster, 30 Years Later

The Takeout with Major Garrett

CBS News

News, Politics

4.6586 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Major conducts a wide-ranging interview with author Jon Krakauer, three decades after the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. Jon reflects on the time that has passed since the release of his 1997 book "Into Thin Air", which chronicles his first-hand account of the journey and what ultimately led to the deaths of twelve people. 

Transcript

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0:00.0

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

0:04.4

Mom!

0:05.0

Up the stairs for something.

0:07.8

Back down, no idea what I went up for.

0:12.0

Mom, what's for dinner?

0:13.6

Chop, sizzle, done.

0:17.1

Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

0:23.6

So its phones down, forks up.

0:25.6

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

0:27.6

Hello.

0:29.6

Attention all passengers.

0:33.6

The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend will depart in four minutes from Platform 6.

0:40.6

Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view and a table seat ideal for playing footsie beneath.

0:47.9

Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber.

0:51.8

Trains on Uber.

0:53.9

John, I want to offer a compliment. I suspect you've heard many times before, but for me it's

1:00.0

very genuine. I hadn't read the book until very recently. That's my fault. But when I started it,

1:07.7

I read it in one day because I could not put it down.

1:13.1

That's a credit to you, but it's also a credit to this traumatic and life-altering experience

1:19.3

of yours, which I read in a recent interview, you said you'd wish you'd never gone on.

1:26.4

Explain that to my audience.

1:30.9

Everest transformed my life.

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