Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer Instagram – Sunrise lighting up the Continental Divide above Wild Basin this morning. I shot the second photo yesterday while climbing on Lumpy Ridge with 2 very dear friends: Tom Hornbein and Harry Kent. Tom is now 91 years old. I met him 57 years ago when I was 9 or 10, shortly after he and Willi Unsoeld made the first ascent of the West Ridge of Mt. Everest—widely considered one of the greatest mountaineering feats of all time. Tom don’t need no stinkin’ harness—he still insists on tying in with a bowline on a coil. | Posted on 03/Dec/2021 23:17:37