Jon Krakauer Interview Discussing Everest
Jon Krakauer and his mentor and friend Tom
Hornbein, author of the mountaineering
classic
Everest: The West Ridge,
talk about climbing the world's tallest
mountain. Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld made
the first successful ascent of Everest's
West Ridge and the first traverse of a
major Himalayan peak on May 22, 1963.
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