The movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest was based on what book by Jon Krakauer?
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Into Thin Air: Death on Everest Into Thin Air: Death on Everest is a 1997 American disaster television film based on Jon Krakauer's memoir "Into Thin Air" (1997). The film, directed by Robert Markowitz and written by Robert J. Avrech, tells the story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster. It was broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company on November 9, 1997.
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Jon Krakauer Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books—"Into the Wild", "Into Thin Air", "Under the Banner of Heaven", and ""—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.
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Planet of Death (novel) Planet of Death is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg, originally published in 1967.
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Nothing by Chance (film) Nothing by Chance is a 1975 American documentary film based on a book by Richard Bach. The film centers on modern barnstorming around the United States in the 1970s. One of the driving forces behind the production, star Richard Bach, is a pilot in real life, and recruited a group of his friends who were also pilots to recreate the era of the barnstormer.
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6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain 6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain is an upcoming American adventure drama film directed by Scott Waugh and written by Madison Turner, based on the non-fiction book "Crystal Clear" by Eric LeMarque and Davin Seay. It stars Josh Hartnett, Mira Sorvino, Sarah Dumont and Jason Cottle, and tells the true story of former professional hockey player Eric LeMarque, who finds himself stranded in the High Sierras during a fierce snowstorm and must use his wit and willpower to survive. The film will be released in the United States on October 13, 2017.
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The Fate of the Earth The Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. This "seminal" description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". The book is regarded as a key document in the nuclear disarmament movement.
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Big Miracle Big Miracle is a 2012 British-American drama film directed by Ken Kwapis, and stars Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski. The film is based on Tom Rose's 1989 book "Freeing the Whales", which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska.
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No Picnic on Mount Kenya No Picnic on Mount Kenya (Italian: "Fuga sul Kenya" ) by Felice Benuzzi is a mountaineering classic recounting the 1943 attempt of three escaped Italian prisoners of war to reach the summit of Mount Kenya. It was first published in 1947 in Italian and in 1952 in English. The 1994 film "The Ascent" is based on this book.
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Joan Slonczewski Joan Lyn Slonczewski is an American microbiologist at Kenyon College and a science fiction writer who explores biology and space travel. Her books have twice earned the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel: "A Door into Ocean" (1987) and "The Highest Frontier" (2011). With John W. Foster she coauthors the textbook, "Microbiology: An Evolving Science" (W. W. Norton). She explores her ideas of biology, politics, and artificial intelligence at her blog Ultraphyte.
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Contact (novel) Contact is a 1985 hard science fiction novel by American scientist Carl Sagan. It deals with the theme of contact between humanity and a more technologically advanced, extraterrestrial life form. It ranked No. 7 on the 1985 U.S. bestseller list. The novel originated as a screenplay by Sagan and Ann Druyan (whom he later married) in 1979; when development of the film stalled, Sagan decided to convert the stalled film into a novel. The film concept was subsequently revived and eventually released in 1997 as the film "Contact" starring Jodie Foster.
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Sahara (Michael Palin book) Sahara is the book that Michael Palin wrote to accompany the BBC television documentary series "Sahara with Michael Palin".
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The Gypsy Moths The Gypsy Moths is a 1969 American drama film, based on the novel of the same name by James Drought and directed by John Frankenheimer. The film tells the story of three barnstorming skydivers and their effect on a Midwestern American town, focusing on the differences in values between the town folk and the hard-living skydivers.
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The Thin Blue Line (1988 film) The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 American documentary film by Errol Morris, depicting the story of Randall Dale Adams, a man convicted and sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit. Adams's case was reviewed and he was released from prison approximately a year after the film's release.
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Truman (book) Truman is a 1992 biography of the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman written by popular historian David McCullough. The book won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. The book was later made into a movie with the same name by HBO.
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A Sound of Lightning A Sound of Lightning is a 1976 novel written by Australian author Jon Cleary and set in Montana.
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Adrianne Harun Adrianne Harun is an American writer of prose. Her debut novel, "A Man Came Out of a Door in the Mountain" (a book about "where evil comes from", according to the author), was published by Penguin in 2014. Claire Vaye Watkins called the book a "breathless, absorbing novel", and the book received many other positive reviews, one reviewer describing it as the "buzz book of the season".
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Death into Life Death into Life is a 1946 novel by Olaf Stapledon. Not strictly science fiction (the genre into which Stapledon's works are usually classified), the novel is described as "an imaginative treatment of the problem of survival after death". It deals primarily with the soul of a rear gunner who is killed in World War II, and who finds himself surviving his apparent death - first as part of a spirit bomber-crew, then as part of the spirits who were killed in the battle, and so on until finally his soul becomes part of a 'cosmical spirit'.
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Zero K (novel) Zero K is a 2016 novel by American author Don DeLillo.
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Three Cups of Deceit Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way is a 2011 e-book written by Jon Krakauer about "Three Cups of Tea" (2007) and "Stones into Schools" (2009) author Greg Mortenson. In it, Krakauer disputes Mortenson's accounts of his experiences in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and accuses him of mishandling funds donated to his charity, Central Asia Institute ("CAI").
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Break Through (book) Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, first published in October 2007, is a book written by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, both long-time environmental strategists. "Break Through" is an argument for a positive, "post-environmental" politics that abandons the traditional environmentalist focus on nature protection for a focus on creating a new sustainable economy.
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Michael Herr Michael David Herr (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of "Dispatches" (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for "Esquire magazine" (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by "The New York Times Book Review"; novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." Herr later was credited with pioneering the literary genre of the nonfiction novel, along with authors such as Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, and Tom Wolfe.
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Alison Levine Alison Levine (born April 5, 1966) is an American mountain climber, sportswoman, explorer and leadership consultant. She is the author of "On the Edge" and the executive producer of a documentary, "The Glass Ceiling". She has ascended the highest peaks on every continent and also skied to both the North and South Poles. In 2010, she completed the Adventure Grand Slam by reaching the summit of Mt. Everest. She serves as an adjunct instructor at the U.S. Military Academy.