How Chris McCandless Died

An update to ‘Into the Wild’

Greg Mortenson, Disgraced Author of ‘Three Cups of Tea,’ Believes He Will Have the Last Laugh

A Postscript to “Into Thin Air”

Written as an afterword to the 1999 edition of my book about the 1996…

When You Reach the Summit of Everest, You Are Only Halfway There

3 TYPES OF PEOPLE WHO DON’T GIVE A FUCK (And How to Become One of Them)

Brainstorming Does Not Work

Why people who brainstorm are wasting their time.

Inside the Control Rooms on September 11, 2001

A chapter from the first draft of ‘Top of the Morning’

At 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, when an American Airlines jet crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, Matt Lauer was…

Jon Krakauer: ‘If You’re Not a Feminist, Then You’re a Problem’

A round-table discussion with Jon…