'Total bull': Into Thin Air author's opinion of Everest movie

Journalist Jon Krakauer, who was on the catastrophic 1996 climb, derides his portrayal in Jake Gyllenhaal-starring film

Jon Krakauer, the journalist who survived the catastrophic 1996 expedition on Everest that resulted in multiple fatalities, and whose subsequent book Into Thin Air became a bestselling account of it, has criticised the recently released film of the disaster as “total bull”.

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, to support the release of Prophet’s Prey, a documentary about religious sect leader Warren Jeffs who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011 for child sex abuse, Krakauer said of the Baltasar Kormákur-directed Everest: “It’s total bull … Anyone who goes to that movie and wants a fact-based account should read Into Thin Air.”

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