Jon Krakauer on Climbing Mt. Everest, Writing Non-Fiction, and 30 Years of ‘Into Thin Air’
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Attention all passengers. |
| 0:03.0 | The Uber ride for Mark and Jamal's romantic weekend |
| 0:07.0 | will depart in four minutes from Platform 6. |
| 0:10.0 | Your ride comes with a rolling countryside sunset view |
| 0:14.0 | and a table seat, ideal for playing footsie beneath. |
| 0:17.0 | Thank you for booking your tickets on Uber. |
| 0:20.0 | Trains on Uber. |
| 0:23.1 | Trains on Uber. |
| 0:25.9 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:27.8 | Bloomberg follows the money. |
| 0:31.8 | Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings. |
| 0:34.5 | There's a money side to every story. |
| 0:36.3 | Get the money side of the story. |
| 0:39.3 | Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com. |
| 0:53.2 | Hello media consumers. Welcome to a bonus edition of the press box. Brian Curtis here, along with producers Isaiah Blakely and John Romer. |
| 0:56.3 | The last time John Crackhour was on the press box, we talked about his great book, Into the |
| 1:01.2 | Wild. Today, Crackhour is back, and we're going to talk about his other great book, Into |
| 1:07.1 | Thin Air. 30 years ago this month, while reporting an article for Outside magazine, |
| 1:11.6 | John Crackhauer climbed to the summit of Mount Everest. He would write the following words. |
| 1:16.6 | Straddling at the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared |
| 1:22.6 | the ice for my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness |
| 1:29.3 | of Tibet. I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of the earth beneath my feet was a |
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