"To Save Afghanistan, Look to Its Past, by Jon Krakauer"

“LDS Church response to Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven”

“Into Thin Air" article in Outside Magazine”

“General McChrystal's Credibility Problem, by Jon Krakauer”

“Krakauer's response to LDS Church criticism”

“Website for documentary Damned to Heaven, based on Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven”

“Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently down at the vastness of Tibet. I understood on some dim, detached level that the sweep of earth beneath my feet was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many months. But now that I was finally here, actually standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.”