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Editors Philip Elmer-DeWitt and Charles P. Alexander, along with senior reporter Barbara Maddux, had a lot of fun matching writer and question. Jon Krakauer, best-selling author of Into Thin Air, handles "Will There Be Any Wilderness Left?" while Peter Benchley (of Jaws fame) addresses the consequences of overfishing in "What Will Be the Catch of the Day?" Richard Preston, who wrote The Hot Zone, muses about "What New Things Are Going to Kill Me?" while Dr. David Ho weighs the chances for an AIDS vaccine. Three of our staff members--Christine Gorman, Michael Lemonick and Jeffrey Kluger--tackle...
...Krakauer is the author of Into Thin Air and Into the Wild
...maybe just sitting home and watching TV isn't such a bad idea. Perhaps we should leave this NYE-Y2K to panels of reveling pundits discussing whether they're having fun yet. Or how about tuning in to some Extreme Reveling? Jon Krakauer Presents: America's Most Dangerous Galas. Experience, from the safety of your own La-Z-Boy, just how dangerous an unfurled noisemaker can be in a violent windstorm at 75[degrees] below zero...
High on their wish list is Mallory's Kodak Vest Pocket camera which might have undeveloped shots from the summit. The "Nova" production will be the most recent in a string of Everest-related media events, including the highly-acclaimed "Everest" Omnimax film and Jon Krakauer's best-selling account of a 1996 disaster on the mountain, Into Thin Air. Few of us can get enough of the myth and stories of the often painful reality surrounding the world's tallest mountain. The hype has even extended to the Web, where the site everest.mountainzone.com is sponsoring the expedition and selling...
4.Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer...