Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: Le 10 mai 1996, le Toit du monde fut le théâtre d'une véritable hécatombe. En route vers le sommet, quatre expéditions furent prises dans une violente tempête. En vingt-quatre heures, huit alpinistes, dont deux guides réputés, trouvèrent la mort. Envoyé spécial du magazine américain Outside, Jon Krakauer fait partie des survivants. Tragédie à l'Everest, son récit de ce drame, est un livre lucide et courageux qui passionnera tous les amoureux de récits d'aventures vécues, amateurs de montagne ou non, comme il a fasciné des millions de lecteurs américains. Un classique du genre.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Presses de la Cité

Categories: Travel

Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: Je t'aime. Dors bien, ma chérie. Je t'en prie, ne te fais pas trop de souci. Telles furent les dernières paroles adressées à sa femme, en Nouvelle-Zélande, par Rob Hall, l'un des guides himalayens les plus expérimentés, depuis le sommet de l'Everest. Il ne devait pas en redescendre vivant. Le 10 mai 1996, le Toit du monde fut le théâtre d'une véritable hécatombe. En route vers le sommet, quatre expéditions furent prises dans une violente tempête. En vingt-quatre heures, huit alpinistes, dont deux guides réputés, trouvèrent la mort. Envoyé spécial du magazine américain Outside, Jon Krakauer faisait partie des survivants. Salué par le magazine Time comme le meilleur document de l'année 1997, ce livre lucide et courageux passionnera tous les amoureux de récits d'aventures vécues, amateurs de montagne ou non, comme il a fasciné des centaines de milliers de lecteurs américains qui en ont d'ores et déjà fait un classique.

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Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: Un recueil qui réunit les meilleurs reportages de Jon Krakauer, LE porte-drapeau du journalisme d'aventure contemporain, et auteur des best-sellers Into the wild et Tragédie à l'Everest. Rassemblant des articles publiés dans de grands magazines américains tels que The New Yorker, Outside et Smithsonian, le recueil Krakauer, À l'extrême témoigne une nouvelle fois du talent de conteur hors pair de celui qui s'est toujours fait le chantre de l'esprit d'aventure sous toutes ses formes et dont la plume captive, avec une intensité rare, la beauté destructrice de la nature sauvage. Des pentes d'un volcan prêt à anéantir Seattle à une grotte du Nouveau-Mexique étudiée par la NASA, de la fin tragique du légendaire surfeur Mark Foo à la terrible réalité des sherpas népalais travaillant sur le Toit du monde, on rencontre, aux côtés de Krakauer, ceux qui vivent en permanence entre défi, risque et inconscience.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Presses de la Cité

Categories: Travel

Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: Par l'auteur d' Into the wild et de Tragédie à l'Everest. Fou d'alpinisme, Jon Krakauer nous offre ici le récit de douze aventures en montagne. Il nous entraîne ainsi dans l'ascension du sommet de l'Eiger, de cascades de glace mais aussi sur les parois d'un canyon du Colorado, nous livrant au passage sa vision personnelle – et quelque peu critique – de Chamonix, cette " capitale mondiale de l'alpinisme ". Nous le suivons avec un intérêt qui ne faiblit jamais de l'Alaska à l'Himalaya, des Rocheuses aux Alpes, comme si nous vivions les ascensions en direct à ses côtés. Krakauer a le don rare de restituer l'atmosphère d'un lieu, de nous rendre sensibles à ses spécificités tout en traçant sur le vif le portrait des hommes souvent fascinants qu'il rencontre chemin faisant.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Presses de la Cité

Categories: Travel

Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: Livre-culte dans le monde entier, Into the Wild a été magistralement porté à l'écran par Sean Penn. En 1992, le cadavre d'un jeune homme est découvert dans un bus abandonné en Alaska, au pied du mont McKinley, loin de tout lieu habité. Fils de bonne famille, Chris McCandless aurait dû en toute logique devenir un Américain bien tranquille à l'avenir sans surprise. Mais, dès l'obtention de son diplôme universitaire, il décide de partir à l'aventure. Après avoir fait don de ses économies à une oeuvre humanitaire, il entame son périple sous un nom d'emprunt avec sa vieille voiture, qu'il abandonnera un peu plus tard. Il sillonne le sud des Etats-Unis, subsistant grâce à de menus travaux, avant de réaliser son grand projet: s'installer au coeur de l'Alaska, seul, en communion avec la nature. Mais on ne s'improvise pas trappeur, ni homme des bois... Ce parcours dramatique d'un jeune homme qui a voulu vivre jusqu'au bout son impossible idéal est retracé par Jon Krakauer, l'auteur du best-seller Tragédie à l'Everest. Livre-culte dans le monde entier, Into the Wild a d'emblée fasciné Sean Penn, qui en a réalisé une adaptation cinématographique applaudie par la critique américaine.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Presses de la Cité

Categories: Fiction

Authors: Jon Krakauer

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Authors: Beck Weathers ,Stephen G. Michaud

Description: Enfer et rédemption à l’Everest... Ou comment Beck Weathers a reconquis son existence et l’amour des siens en manquant perdre la vie sur le toit du monde. Une aventure exemplaire à retrouver au cinéma dans le film Everest. En 1996, huit alpinistes périssent à l’Everest dans une tempête tragiquement célèbre, tandis que le neuvième homme de l’expédition, déjà considéré comme mort, en réchappe miraculeusement, au prix d’un calvaire inhumain. Beck Weathers a survécu, mais l’épreuve la plus difficile reste devant lui : le retour à une existence « normale ». Car lorsque le docteur Beck Weathers est arrivé en Himalaya, obsédé par l’ascension du plus haut sommet de chaque continent, sa vie était en miettes. Son mariage ne tenait plus qu’à un fil et la relation avec ses deux enfants ne valait guère mieux. La dépression le minait depuis des années et la montagne était une échappatoire. Un second miracle a voulu que Beck Weathers, le corps, le cœur et l’esprit meurtris, se relève de cette tragédie personnelle. Sa femme, qui n’avait pas cru à sa mort, ne s’est pas résolue davantage à condamner leur couple, pour peu que Beck vienne à bout de ses démons. Le témoignage de Peach Weathers se mêle au récit de l’alpiniste pour raconter avec sincérité, humour et lucidité la renaissance d'un homme et d'une famille. En 3D et sur les écrans dans plus de 50 pays le 23 septembre 2015, Everest, un film de fiction de Baltasar Kormákur, met en scène le dépassement de soi des alpinistes et la « tragédie à l’Everest » relatée par Jon Krakauer dans son bestseller international Into Thin Air. Josh Brolin et Robin Wright incarnent Beck et Peach Weathers, aux côtés de Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, John Hawkes et Keira Knightley.

Langue: fr

Publisher: Glénat Livres

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Jon Krakauer ,Christian Molinier

Description: Mai 1996, Huit personnes vont trouver la mort, englouties par la tempête au sommet de la plus haute montagne du monde. Que s'est-il passé ? Comment les hommes engagés ne virent-ils pas les nuages annonciateurs de l'ouragan ? Pourquoi les deux grands guides, chefs d'expédition, se laissèrent-ils prendre au piège comme des papillons attirés par la lumière ? La météo, l'ambition, la faiblesse des hommes... Tout va jouer en faveur du drame. Krakauer à l'Everest, c'est Melville sur le pont du Titanic : on comprend tout de cet univers à l'extrême limite de la vie. Comment l'argent fait irruption dans l'univers de la haute altitude et vient s'immiscer dans les relations entre les guides. Comment n'a-t-on pu secourir les alpinistes alors même qu'on était en contact avec eux, comme Robert Hall, le guide néo-zélandais qui meurt en liaison-radio avec sa femme, prononçant ces derniers mots : " Je t'aime, dors bien ma chérie, ne t'inquiète pas trop... "

Langue: fr

Publisher: Editions Guérin

Categories: Mountaineering accidents

Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The epic account of the storm on the summit of Mt. Everest that claimed five lives and left countless more—including Krakauer's—in guilt-ridden disarray. "A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing, a story of bad luck and worse judgment and of heartbreaking heroism." —PEOPLE A bank of clouds was assembling on the not-so-distant horizon, but journalist-mountaineer Jon Krakauer, standing on the summit of Mt. Everest, saw nothing that "suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down." He was wrong. By writing Into Thin Air, Krakauer may have hoped to exorcise some of his own demons and lay to rest some of the painful questions that still surround the event. He takes great pains to provide a balanced picture of the people and events he witnessed and gives due credit to the tireless and dedicated Sherpas. He also avoids blasting easy targets such as Sandy Pittman, the wealthy socialite who brought an espresso maker along on the expedition. Krakauer's highly personal inquiry into the catastrophe provides a great deal of insight into what went wrong. But for Krakauer himself, further interviews and investigations only lead him to the conclusion that his perceived failures were directly responsible for a fellow climber's death. Clearly, Krakauer remains haunted by the disaster, and although he relates a number of incidents in which he acted selflessly and even heroically, he seems unable to view those instances objectively. In the end, despite his evenhanded and even generous assessment of others' actions, he reserves a full measure of vitriol for himself. This updated trade paperback edition of Into Thin Air includes an extensive new postscript that sheds fascinating light on the acrimonious debate that flared between Krakauer and Everest guide Anatoli Boukreev in the wake of the tragedy. "I have no doubt that Boukreev's intentions were good on summit day," writes Krakauer in the postscript, dated August 1999. "What disturbs me, though, was Boukreev's refusal to acknowledge the possibility that he made even a single poor decision. Never did he indicate that perhaps it wasn't the best choice to climb without gas or go down ahead of his clients." As usual, Krakauer supports his points with dogged research and a good dose of humility. But rather than continue the heated discourse that has raged since Into Thin Air's denouncement of guide Boukreev, Krakauer's tone is conciliatory; he points most of his criticism at G. Weston De Walt, who coauthored The Climb, Boukreev's version of events. And in a touching conclusion, Krakauer recounts his last conversation with the late Boukreev, in which the two weathered climbers agreed to disagree about certain points. Krakauer had great hopes to patch things up with Boukreev, but the Russian later died in an avalanche on another Himalayan peak, Annapurna I. In 1999, Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious prize intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment." According to the Academy's citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer. His account of an ascent of Mount Everest has led to a general reevaluation of climbing and of the commercialization of what was once a romantic, solitary sport; while his account of the life and death of Christopher McCandless, who died of starvation after challenging the Alaskan wilderness, delves even more deeply and disturbingly into the fascination of nature and the devastating effects of its lure on a young and curious mind."

Langue: en

Publisher: Vintage

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Jon Krakauer

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Authors: Vivian Wagner

Description: ABOUT THE BOOK When I first read Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, I was enthralled and amazed. The story he tells about a doomed Mt. Everest expedition in 1996 is both thrilling and terrifying, and it also has a lot to say about the problems with the commercialization of adventure expeditions on the highest mountain in the world. It’s a well-researched and extraordinarily well-written first-hand account of the tragic expedition, and Krakauer’s excellent storytelling makes for gripping reading. Not only was he a member of this expedition, but he knows how to tell a story - how to introduce characters, build drama, and describe situations. He also has a gift for researching and writing history. When I first read Into Thin Air, I was prompted to read everything I could get my hands on about Mt. Everest. You could spend several years reading through this material, since there have been many books published about Mt. Everest, including several about this same disaster. Reading as many as you can will throw you into a fascinating, complex, and sometimes contradictory world of adventurers, scientists, business people, Tibetan and Nepalese guides, socialites, swindlers, politicians, artists, dreamers, and many other characters - as well as the frigid and challenging character of the mountain itself. Whether this is your first or fiftieth foray into the literature of Mt. Everest, you won’t be disappointed by Into Thin Air, and it will certainly draw you into its subzero spell. MEET THE AUTHOR professional writer Vivian Wagner has wide-ranging interests, from technology and business to music and motorcycles. She writes features regularly for ECT News Network, and her work has also appeared in American Profile, Entrepreneur, Bluegrass Unlimited, and many other publications. She is also the author of Fiddle: One Woman, Four Strings, and 8,000 Miles of Music (Citadel 2010). For more about her, visit her website at www.vivianwagner.net. EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK Into Thin Air (1997) began as a 1996 article for Outside Magazine. Krakauer wanted to develop the story more fully, however, and thus was the book was born. He’d originally been assigned to examine the commercialization of Mt. Everest for the Outside article. That ended up being the focus of the story after all, but with a much more tragic outcome than he or his editors could have imagined. For the article and subsequent book, Krakauer joined an expedition led by Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants. During that season, a number of other expeditions were also on the mountain along with Krakauer and Hall, including Scott Fischer’s Mountain Madness. Both Hall and Fischer were killed in the May 1996 disaster, along with six other climbers. Since its publication, Into Thin Air has been at the center of controversy surrounding Krakauer’s account of events, particularly in regards to questions about who was responsible for tragic errors made on the mountain. Much of the initial criticism of the book came from the Russian climbing guide Anatoli Boukreev, who disputed Krakauer’s depiction of him as neglecting his mountain guide duties. In response to Krakauer’s book, Boukreev published his own account of the tragedy, co-authored by G. Weston DeWalt, called The Climb (1997). In postscript to a later edition of Into Thin Air, Krakauer took up this debate and defended his account of the tragedy against Boukreev’s criticism. Buy a copy to keep reading!

Langue: en

Publisher: Hyperink Inc

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Authors: Jon Krakauer

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Authors: Scott P. Werther

Description: Relates the 1996 experiences of Jon Krakauer, a writer for Outside magazine, as he joined a group attempting to climb to the highest point on earth, the summit of Mt. Everest.

Langue: en

Publisher: Children's Press (Dublin)

Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction

Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: A maior tragédia já ocorrida no teto do mundo, contada por um de seus sobreviventes. "Mais tarde - depois que foram localizados seis corpos, depois que a busca de outros dois foi abandonada, depois que os médicos amputaram a mão direita de Beck Weathers meu companheiro de equipe - as pessoas se perguntariam por que motivo, se o tempo começara a piorar, os alpinistas não haviam prestado atenção aos sinais. Por que os veteranos guias do Himalaia continuaram subindo e conduzindo um bando de amadores relativamente inexperientes - que pagaram até 65 mil dólares para chegar em segurança ao Everest - rumo a uma evidente armadilha mortal?"

Langue: pt-BR

Publisher: Editora Companhia das Letras

Categories: Biography & Autobiography

Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: »En av de bästa äventyrsböckerna genom tiderna.« Wall Street Journal »En perfekt kombination av spänning, natur och ett lättillgängligt språk. Rekommenderas starkt!« Recensenten.se »Krakauer återskapar den dödliga stormen med en självlysande och skräckinjagande intimitet.« New York Times Den 10 maj 1996 nådde bergsklättraren och journalisten Jon Krakauer äntligen toppen av Mount Everest tillsammans med en grupp andra klättrare. Kort därefter drog ett oväder av katastrofala mått in över dem. En storm som dödade fem personer och lämnade de överlevande i ett tillstånd av chock, skräck och skuldkänslor. I den hyllade bästsäljaren Tunn luft berättar Jon Krakauer den fängslande och otäcka historien om den ödesdigra dagen och hur den förändrade hans liv för gott. JON KRAKAUER, född 1954, är en amerikansk författare och bergsbestigare. Han har bland annat skrivit för tidskrifter som Outside och Rolling Stone. In i vildmarken [1996] var Krakauers stora genombrott som journalist och författare, och har sålt i flera miljoner exemplar. 1997 kom den lika hyllade, självupplevda Tunn luft, som även den blev en mångmiljonsäljare. 2007 blev In i vildmarken film i regi av Sean Penn. »Krakauers ögonvittnesskildring är ett hypnotiskt drama om hybris, ansvar och självuppoffrande hjältedåd. Den kommer att ge ett bestående intryck hos alla som läser den.« Booklist »Enastående.« Newsweek

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Publisher: MiMa Förlag

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Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness teen-therapy program run by apparent sadists to an otherworldly cave in New Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars; from the notebook of one Fred Beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the planet, to the last days of legendary surfer Mark Foo. Bringing together work originally published in such magazines as The New Yorker, Outside, and Smithsonian—all rigorously researched, vividly written, and marked by an unerring instinct for storytelling and scoop—Classic Krakauer powerfully demonstrates the author’s ambivalent love affair with unruly landscapes and his relentless search for truth.

Langue: en

Publisher: Vintage

Categories: Sports & Recreation

Authors: Noël Merino

Description: The subject of endless speculation, Chris McCandless abrupt journey into the American wilderness and his subsequent mysterious death play a central role in Jon Krakauer's 1996 nonfiction book Into the Wild. This comprehensive edition provides an in-depth analysis of the life, work, and career of author Jon Krakauer, focusing particularly on the theme of coming of age as it relates to Into the Wild. Readers are presented with a series of essays that tackle questions about McCandless' death, the substantiality of Krakauer's theories, and the parallels between McCandless' story and other travel-based coming of age stories. Modern perspectives on coming of age and travel narratives are also discussed, allowing readers examine concepts such as self-actualization, the relationship between travel and gender, and the dangers of inexperienced traveling.

Langue: en

Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC

Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction

Authors: Jon Krakauer

Description: Una tragedia del nostro tempo raccontata dall'autore di Nelle terre estreme. Il libro che ha ispirato il film Everest (2015) presentato alla 72ª Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica di Venezia. L’Everest o Dea del Cielo è sempre stato oggetto di fascinazione, ossessione e desiderio sia per gli alpinisti sia per i sognatori. Ormai, se si ha il denaro necessario, è alla portata di tutti. Basta prenotarsi in una delle poche agenzie turistiche specializzate in emozioni estreme e firmare l’assegno. Quando nel maggio del 1996 Krakauer fu inviato dalla prestigiosa rivista Outside a partecipare a una spedizione sull’Everest per scrivere un articolo sulla proliferazione delle scalate a pagamento condotte da guide professioniste, sembrò il logico coronamento di una carriera che era riuscita a combinare le sue due passioni: l’alpinismo e la scrittura. Il 10 maggio, però, una tempesta colse di sorpresa le quattro spedizioni che si trovavano sulla cima. Alla fine della giornata nove alpinisti erano morti, incluse due delle migliori guide. Krakauer è tra i fortunati che sono riusciti a ridiscendere «la Montagna». Aria sottile è molto più che la cronaca di quella tragedia; oltre ad offrire un punto di vista privilegiato – quello della prima persona – su una vicenda che a oltre vent’anni di distanza fa ancora discutere, offre soprattutto un esame provocatorio delle motivazioni che stanno dietro alle ascensioni ad alta quota e una drammatica testimonianza del perché quella tragedia si poteva evitare. Krakauer descrive in modo indimenticabile la fatica di esistere e ancor più di muoversi a 8000 metri. È un acuto esaminatore dell’ascetismo masochistico che spinge gli alpinisti; sa che per voler salire sull’Everest bisogna avere una buona dose di follia. La sua storia contiene quella che deve essere l’essenza dell’inferno: l’infinita capacità delle cose di divenire peggiori di quello che temi. Grazie alla sua straordinaria capacità narrativa che rende vivido il racconto di ogni passo sulla montagna e alla feroce critica delle decisioni prese lassù quel 10 maggio, Krakauer ha scritto un bestseller che è diventato ormai il classico indiscusso della letteratura di montagna.

Langue: it

Publisher: Corbaccio

Categories: Travel