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Education: Hampshire College, MA, early s. Hobbies and other interests: Mountain climbing. Contributing editor to Outside magazine. Worked previously as a carpenter and commercial fisherman. With David F. Contributor to periodicals, including Smithsonian, Outsideand Playboy. It was also adapted into an audiocassette read by Krakauer by BAD, Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, inKrakauer was two years old when his family moved to the more rugged locale of Corvallis, Oregon; he began mountain climbing at the young age of eight. Krakauer's father, who led the hike up Oregon's ten-thousand-foot South Sister Mountain, was an acquaintance of climber Willi Unsoeld, who had been a member of the first American expedition to Mount Everest in As a boy, Krakauer idolized Unsoeld and fellow climber Tom Hornbein, and he dreamed of being like them and ascending to the summit of High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places some day. Krakauer eventually attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts during the early s. While at school, he met climbing writer David Roberts, who regaled him with stories of the excellent climbing in Alaska. I worked as a carpenter in Boulder, Colorado, five months of the year, climbed the rest. As a result, the American Alpine Club asked Krakauer to write about the climbs for its journal; this was the first article Krakauer wrote. Three years later, he published an article on climbing the Devil's Thumb in the British magazine Mountain. This article paid well enough for Krakauer to decide to become a freelance writer, and in he quit doing carpentry work and became a full-time writer. Like any craft, the longer and harder you work at your writing, the more likely you are to get better at it. He sent out about ten query letters a week, asking various editors if they were interested in his articles, and getting enough positive responses back to make a living. In the late s, Krakauer met Linda Moore, a student at the University of Colorado at Denver, and married her in Moore, who was also a climber, thought Krakauer would stop climbing because of the risks involved. Although he promised her he would quit, he was unable to tear himself away from the mountains, and as he said in an Outside Online interview, "I came within a millimeter of wrecking our marriage. So, then we went through a bunch of years when climbing was a big issue. Now it is less of an issue. It is how I make my living, to no small degree…. It's a huge part of who I am, and I wouldn't be a writer if it wasn't for climbing, and Linda understands that and she accepts it. As his writing career progressed, Krakauer found that he wrote best when he focused on outdoor subjects. His first book, Eiger Dreamswas a collection of magazine articles, which originally appeared in Outside and Smithsonian. Krakauer wrote about his own experiences climbing Mount McKinleythe North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland, and many other mountains, and tried to answer the question of why anyone would risk death by climbing these peaks. Krakauer has taken the literature of mountains onto a higher ledge. His snow-capped peaks set against High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places blue skies present problems that inspire irrefutable human experiences: fear and triumph, damnation and salvation. There is beauty in his mountains beyond that expressed in conventional sermons. His reverence is earned, and it's entirely genuine. Ineditors at Outside asked Krakauer to write about the life and death of Christopher McCandless, a twenty-four-year-old honors graduate who, prompted by the writings of Leo Tolstoy, decided to give away all his possessions and go to the wilderness to experience transcendence. Near Alaska's Denali National Park, he hiked into the bush, planning to live off the land. He carried with him only a. Four months later, his body was found: he had starved to death. Near the body was a desperate note in which he begged to be saved. Krakauer used McCandless's journals and postcards, as well as interviews with those who knew him, to reconstruct the last two years of McCandless's life and write an article about it. However, McCandless's story fascinated Krakauer, and he expanded the article into a book, Into the Wild. In his introduction to the book, Krakauer wrote, "I was haunted by the particulars of the boy's starvation and by vague, unsettling parallels between events in his life and those in my own. There, he set off into the wilderness to climb the Devil's Thumb, a forbidding peak, ignoring the pleas of family and friends that it was a foolhardy, dangerous undertaking. The view into that swirling black vortex terrified me, but I caught sight of something elemental in that shadowy glimpse, some forbidden, fascinating riddle. Although McCandless's death was commonly greeted with derision or apathy by Alaskans, who pointed to the arrogance inherent in his ill- equipped and untutored attempt to live off the land, Krakauer presented a sympathetic portrait of the young man and his yearnings. He wrote in the introduction to the book that in trying to understand McCandless, "I inevitably came to reflect on other, larger subjects as well: the grip wilderness has on the American imagination, the allure high-risk activities hold for young men of a certain mind, the complicated, highly charged bond that exists between fathers and sons. Krakauer's elegantly constructed narrative takes us from the ghoulish moment of the hunters' discovery [of McCandless's body] back through McCandless's childhood, the gregarious effusions and icy withdrawals that characterized his coming of age, and, in meticulous detail, the two years of restless roaming that led him to Alaska. The more we learn about him, the more mysterious McCandless becomes, and the more intriguing. Krakauer's next book, Into Thin Airwas also the result of a request by Outside. Asked to write about the increasing commercialization of Mount Everest climbing expeditions, Krakauer joined a climbing team led by Rob Hall, who had previously ascended the peak seven times. In the article that preceded the book, "Into Thin Air," Krakauer wrote that although he had previously abandoned his childhood dream of climbing the mountain, "When the call came to join Hall's expedition, I said yes without even hesitating to catch my breath. Boyhood dreams die hard, I discovered, and good sense be damned. In Outside online Krakauer noted that at base camp, situated at an altitude of 17, feet, he saw that "there's a lot of inexperienced people here— and many people would say I'm one of them—and that's sort of scary. High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places a lot of people here who shouldn't be here. And maybe I shouldn't be here…. People who wouldn't have the time and the experience—but they have the money—can do this. He added that when he finally reached the summit of Everest, "straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently at the vast sweep High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places earth below. I understood on some dim, detached level that it was a spectacular sight. I'd been fantasizing about this moment, and the release of emotion that would accompany it, for many High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places. But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care. But the summit was really only the halfway point. Any impulse I might have felt toward self-congratulation was immediately extinguished by apprehension about the long, dangerous descent that lay ahead. As Krakauer began the long, arduous descent down the mountain, a winter storm struck, stranding several climbers behind him. Krakauer managed to reach the safety of his camp in the darkness of the storm and the coming night, and he thought the other climbers would be close behind him. He was unaware that one of his teammates was already dead and that twenty-eight High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places were still on the mountain, struggling for their lives. It was a struggle that eight climbers, including Hall, lost. Krakauer, haunted by guilt because he was unable to do anything to save any of those who died, wrote about the trek for Outsidebut as in Into the Wildhe wanted to explore the events more deeply than a relatively short magazine piece would allow. In the book, he wrote, "Days later … people would ask why, if the weather had begun to deteriorate, had climbers on the upper mountain not heeded the signs? Why did veteran Himalayan guides keep moving upward, leading a gaggle of amateurs … into an apparent death trap? Nobody can speak for the leaders of the two guided groups involved, for both men are now dead. But I can attest that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10 High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places that a murderous storm was about to bear down on us. The book was roundly criticized by friends and families of the climbers who died, as well as by other climbers who survived; they accused Krakauer of profiting off others' tragedy and of being too judgmental of the actions of the survivors. However, in OutsideKrakauer defended himself, commenting, "In writing High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places book I tried very hard to recount the events truthfully, in an even-handed, sympathetic manner that did not sensationalize the tragedy or cause undue pain to friends and families of the victims. I certainly feel that some people are hurt by my assessments, but somebody needed to step up and tell what went on up there. Critics, on the other hand, praised the book, and readers kept it on the best-seller list for months. In ForbesJames M. Clash wrote, "Every once in a while a work of nonfiction comes along that's as good as anything a novelist could make up. Krakauer's new book … fits the bill. Unlike the expedition, his story rushes irresistibly forward. Not that they're likely to do so. In order to write the book, Krakauer filled up nine notebooks with detailed notes and observations. He told a Boldtype interviewer, "I sort of take notes the way photographers take photos. You just sort of scattershot everything, because you never know what's going to prove invaluable when you get back down…. The only time I didn't take notes was on summit day. I tried at 27, feet … but they're basically illegible, and they make no sense because my brain wasn't working [as a result of the low oxygen level at High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places altitude]. I wanted to tell the story in its full complexity. InKrakauer departed from his series of books about the outdoors and people's passion for nature to discuss another kind High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places passion: religious fanaticism. According to Matthew Flamm in Entertainment WeeklyKrakauer said he wanted to understand "the terrible things people do … in the name of God. Krakauer told Bryant, "I guess I don't try to justify climbing, or defend it, because I can't. There's no way to defend it, even to yourself, once you've been involved in something like this disaster. And yet I've continued to climb. I don't know what that says about me or the sport other than the potential power it has. What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life and death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places. Glauser, review of Into Thin Airp. Kirkus ReviewsFebruary 1,p. KliattSeptember,review of Into Thin Airp. Library JournalNovember 15,p. G11; June 1,review of Into Thin Airp. High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places by David Breashears

Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. For a better shopping experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Prologue: Everest As a mountain climber, I've always felt more drawn to the top than driven from the bottom. I was twelve High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places old when I came upon the famous picture of Tenzing Norgay standing atop Mount Everest. From that moment on, I equated climbing Everest with man's capacity for hope. Indeed, there's nothing so exhilarating, so purifying, as standing on its summit more than 29, feet above the sea, surveying the planet below. Before MayI had climbed Everest twice, and each time I had experienced the singular sense of rebirth that the mountain has to offer. But Everest also offers the finality of death. Over the next several days our expedition climbed up Everest, struggling with bitter cold and bitter truths and a deeply felt grief for our friends who would lie frozen in death forever. There's no place to bury the dead on an ice-bound mountaintop. In the week following Everest's cruelest disaster, other expeditions broke their siege and went home. Why did we stay on and ascend the mountain once more? On reflection, I think it was because High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places felt a strong kinship not only with the dead but with the mountain itself. I hated seeing it stand in disarray, under scrutiny from the world's media; I wanted redemption from the tragedy. I couldn't accept leaving, not after all my years on the mountain, not with reasonable weather and our enormous stock of equipment and human skill, not without trying one more time. So, with the aid of a London-based weather service, we watched and waited for a break in the weather at the top. The jet stream, which sweeps across Everest in the spring, was howling around the summit, and no man-made instrument can accurately forecast when it will blow off the mountaintop and move north over the Tibetan plateau. For days, there was little change. I was dismayed but not astonished; I've seen the jet stream pound Everest for fifty uninterrupted days. Still, I searched reports for the tiniest shard of hope, anything to signal a positive turn. Eventually we decided it was time to move out from our Base Camp at 17, feet: better to face the mountain in our boots than sit around in our tents brooding about it. We climbed back to the upper camps with the threat of the wind roaring ominously above at eighty to ninety miles per hour. In mountain climbing, it's not the wind around you that frightens you, but the wind that awaits you. Much of our trepidation was, to be sure, psychological. After all, skilled Everest veterans had died up there just weeks High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places. It was a rare and welcome moment as we pitched High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places tents; we could actually stand upright, and we could continue that night toward the summit minus a goodly portion of our fear. The sun descended and the tent walls darkened. Though we were utterly exhausted, none of us could rest. Throughout the evening we readied our climbing gear and the film equipment and melted ice to drink. There's no malingering at the South Col camp. It's too high, too barren, and the air is too thin. There's no earthly reason to be there except to gain Everest's summit. We'd spent two years preparing for this summit attempt, training our bodies and minds, making checklists, customizing High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places winterizing and lightening the massive IMAX camera and everything else within our grasp. Now the weather had given us the break we needed. At p. I unzipped my tent. No matter how many times I've made this journey, it always begins in the same way. It's pitch dark outside as I unzip the door. What little heat has pooled inside spills out into the frigid night air; the sense of safety and security I feel in the tent vanishes with the warmth. The stars were out that night but there was no moon. It was dark and cold, minus 30 degrees; the night was still. Looking above, I could barely see the outline of Everest, a dark, lopsided pyramid cut out from the stars. I High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places on a small rock to put on my crampons sharp metal spikes attached to my bootswhich dug into the snow and ice. Bare-handed, I checked and rechecked to make sure the heel and toe clips were biting through the thin neoprene of my overboots, an extra layer of insulation over my climbing boots. I hadn't planned on using overboots up there. But after the catastrophe I felt inordinately vulnerable, not just to the cold, but to my own mortality. I've always relied on strength of mind to drive my body, and the body has always been good with plenty of horsepower. High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places the deaths in that disastrous climb reminded me that I was forty years old now. I had borrowed the overboots from a friend, Jon Krakauer, who had survived the May 10 storm. I walked among the nylon domes of the heavy-weather tents, hoarsely shouting that it was time to go. The tents were already alive, sides huffing out with the movements inside, zippers scraping in the silent night. Sherpas and team members gathered their gear, and I mentally ran through my own checklist one more time: two full bottles of oxygen, spare mittens, ice axe, and, most important, my compass fixed with a heading so that even in a storm I could find my way home. There was High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places idle chatter in the air, only tension and focus on the mission. The South Col is a broad expanse of rocks, a hard, flat, forbidding surface. I knew that the featureless terrain had been a deadly problem for the descending climbers on the night of May 10 because, without a compass to guide them, there were no directional clues in the blizzard's whiteout. Lost and desperately searching for high camp, eleven climbers had collapsed at the edge of the 8,foot precipice of Everest's Kangshung Face overlooking Tibet. There, a few hundred yards from safety, one woman, Yasuko Namba, had frozen to death, and a Texan named Beck Weathers had suffered mutilating frostbite. I crossed the South Col to the first icy incline, awkwardly duckwalking on crampons scraping against fist-sized rocks and bulletproof ice. Like my team, I knew I was hypoxic starved for oxygenseverely sleep-deprived, dehydrated, and malnourished. Yet here I was, commanding my body to work as hard High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places it had ever worked. That makes for tough going. But after an hour of robotically placing one foot in front of the other, I finally found my rhythm. All I could hear was the raspy sound of my labored breathing as I inhaled and exhaled through my oxygen mask, my breaths keeping pace with each step. Yet this time there was no matching sense of purpose and exhilaration, only the grim knowledge of the littered battlefield we would find as we climbed higher. I'd been involved in body recoveries on Everest before, but there had been nothing in my training to prepare me to pass through the open graveyard waiting above: This time the graveyard held friends. Several hundred yards below Advance Base Camp, at 21, feet, a climber lay near the route, wrapped in a blue tarp. And for years, before the wind finally blew her remains over the Kangshung Face, every Everest expedition climbing on this route had passed Hannelore Schmatz, a skeletal landmark just above the South Col with her brown hair streaming in the wind. Also near the South Col camp lay a Czech and, higher up, a Bulgarian. Years earlier, on the glacier below, I'd gathered the frozen bodies of two Nepalese climbers. The North Col route, on the Tibetan side, was similarly strewn with climbers who had never come down. In I'd helped carry a Sherpa friend buried by an avalanche to Rongbuk monastery for cremation. And one of my documentaries followed the search for the most celebrated of the dead, British legend George Mallory, who vanished near the summit in Wherever they lie, the dead mutely testify to the sinister ease with which a day on Everest can come undone. Despite the snow and ice, Everest is as dry as a desert; the sun and wind quickly mummify human remains. They come to resemble nothing so much as that ancient iceman discovered years ago in an Italian mountain pass. I've dealt with them before, and hardened myself to the harsh knowledge that the line between life and death is mercilessly thin in the frigid and rarefied air of this unforgiving place. But this night was different; those waiting ahead were people I had known and respected. We knew exactly where one of the best-known Everest guides, Rob Hall, had died, due to his final radio transmissions. From other reports we had a good idea where Scott Fischer lay. Doug Hansen died near Rob and we thought we'd find him, too. But Andy Harris was still missing. Our team had had nearly two weeks since the tragedy to face our fears and sorrows and anger. Still, it's one thing to deal High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places your demons at the foot of the mountain, quite another to see comrades lying dead in the snow. Hours passed as I resolutely climbed higher and higher, with little sense of gaining height because of the darkness beyond the circle of light from my headlamp. I felt alone and detached, in a trancelike state, as I always have on these summit slopes. But when I looked back I could see the shafts of light from my companions' headlamps, and it was comforting to know that they were there, making their solitary journeys with me. Sporadic gusts of wind swirled loose powder snow and I would pause with my head bowed east, away from the icy spray. Prior to dawn, at 27, feet, below the gully that leads to the High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places Ridge, I was startled by a blue object off to my right. I was hypoxic and briefly confused. But the intense effort of the night had smothered that thought. And now my dulled brain struggled to make sense of it: How could someone as strong and resourceful as Scott end up here? It seemed dreamlike; it couldn't be real. I didn't go near him. On this day I needed to conserve myself, and distance was a defense. By the light of my headlamp I could see that he was lying on his back across a narrow snow-covered terrace, one leg outstretched, one bent, and his arm tightly clenched across his chest. His body position was awkward, slightly contorted. Les 10+ meilleures images de la catastrophe | art, installation livre, art de la broderie

David Breashears transmitted the first live television from Mount Everest inand has been capturing the beauty—and danger—of that mysterious place ever since. He is an accomplished filmmaker, explorer, author and speaker, and the first American to reach the summit twice. He also is the founder and executive director of GlacierWorks, an organization that raises awareness about the consequences of climate change in the Greater Himalayan Region. InBreashears and his team were in the midst of shooting the first IMAX film on Everest when the infamous May blizzard hit, stranding numerous climbers. Breashears and his team stopped filming to provide assistance, but in the end, the storm killed eight climbers. Breashears and his team reached the summit later that month, achieving their goal of becoming the first to record IMAX images from earth's highest point. Breashears said success that spring was not defined by reaching the summit, but that everyone on his team returned safely down the mountain. He has made eight expeditions to Everest and reached the summit five times. Breashears is the recipient of four Emmy Awards for achievement High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places filmmaking. He is also known for guiding Richard Bass to the summit of Everest, helping Bass complete his ascent of the highest summit on all High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places continents. Breashears is widely recognized among the world's top-tier business schools as an innovative and influential leader. His talks combine first person story-telling with breathtaking images from that film expedition. Breashear's extraordinary leadership experiences allow him to speak on a range of topics, including leadership, motivation, teamwork, team building High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places safety, while targeting his talk to the audience and its goals. Vision, Courage, Passion: Leadership at 26, Feet Breashears's leadership presentation is based on 25 years of experience as a mountaineer, adventurer and filmmaker. In telling about the infamous tragedy on Mount Everest, Breashears recounts the vision, courage and passion that helped his team reach the summit on May 23,despite insurmountable odds. Breashears has said if there is a lesson to be learned from the tragedy, it is that success was not only being the world's first IMAX team to film on Everest's summit, it was also that everyone on his team returned safely from the mountain. 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He uses the example of the sherpa from his trips to and from the summit to talk about dignity within the team, and how selfish leaders can destroy a team. Extreme Leadership in an Unforgiving World Breashears says High Exposure: an Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places a good leader and teammate is getting harder as the world becomes more complex and rapidly changing. In this talk, he explains why it is paramount for leaders to know their world, communicate a clear set of goals and mission, and have the commitment, conviction, and energy to lead your team to flawless execution. But the question remains: Why climb? In High Exposure, elite mountaineer and acclaimed Everest filmmaker David Breashears answers with an intimate and captivating look at his life. For Breashears, climbing has never been a question of risk taking: Rather, it is the pursuit of excellence and a quest for self-knowledge. Danger comes, he argues, when ambition blinds reason. 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