05-12-2008, 07:54 PM | #1 |
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All you ever needed to know about Jon Krakauer
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http://www.salon.com/wlust/feature/1...03feature.html |
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"That said, the core document in the case against "Into Thin Air" is indisputably "The Climb," co-written by Boukreev, a flinty Russian climber who was the lead guide on Scott Fischer's team, and DeWalt, a little-known writer and investigative filmmaker. It is not a particularly impressive book, nor one that inspires deep confidence in its reportorial method. (Among other things, the book's co-authors did not, as Krakauer did, conduct independent interviews with either Mike Groom or Neal Beidleman, the only other professional guides who survived after being caught high on the mountain that day. DeWalt, whose account of the tragedy relies heavily on briefing tapes that were made shortly after the tragedy, says he tried vigorously to contact Beidleman. "[I]t's an angry book, written in direct response to Krakauer's account. As one climber has put it, it's a book that reads more like a legal document, a brief for the defense, than an attempt to tell a straightforward tale." "Into Thin Air" is a modern classic. This isn't a contest and Krakauer was admirably forthright in that book.
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Archaea quotes the conclusory assertions of Krakauer's enemies, summarized as a predicate to the Sonon article author's analysis, rather than the author's analysis. Classic.
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Krakauer admits freely that he changed his account from his Outdoor magazine article to his book, to not be as hard on Boukreev.
In other words, he acknowledged his own emotional bias against Boukreev. Speaks volumes. Krakauer literally and figuratively stepped over bodies on his way down to the bank. |
05-12-2008, 08:26 PM | #6 |
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Damning, damning, damning.
http://dir.salon.com/story/travel/fe...8/07/featurea/ Who slept while Boukreev risked his life and saved three people? Krakauer. |
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Krakauer is going to hell for slandering this man. What a POS.
http://outside.away.com/peaks/fischer/anatoli.html |
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Ed's book doesn't focus exclusively upon the 1996 May expedition and is more even handed than any of the other books.
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http://outside.away.com/peaks/fischer/krakreply1.html
This is Krakauer's response. The way K. judges this man, the only man to have even TRIED to rescue others, just boggles my mind. B. was the ONLY ONE to attempt to rescue, which he did successfully. Yet, he gets the brunt of the criticism? K. gall combined with his ignorance is stupefying. I wish I could punch him in the mouth myself. But I know that would be wrong. But maybe the Lord would give me a mulligan on that one. |
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But this letter is so much ado about nothing. Here's the order of arguments: 1) Boukreev didn't use oxygen but he wasn't impaired; 2) Fischer authorized Boukreev's rapid descent; 3) Boukreev feels bad about failing to save a climber. Still, he admits he didn't use oxygen, and made a rapid descent. Glad we got that settled. Going for the capillary.
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