NEWSLETTER: Get the day’s top headlines > The stories he’s drawn to almost always have something to do with injustice: In recent years, he’s focused on NFL player-turned-Army soldier Pat Tillman, charity fraud allegations against “Three Cups of Tea” author Greg Mortenson and college campus rape. He’s obsessive about research but hates writing itself. That’s probably because he spends so much time working. “The last time my wife and I had someone over for dinner was maybe three years ago.” He lives in Boulder, Colo., with his wife, a botanist, in a 3,000-foot tract house. He is, by his own admission, a quiet guy. In his collared shirt, blue jeans and glasses, looking like the cool professor who conducts class on the quad when the weather’s warm, it’s hard to imagine him on Everest. And he’s not a particularly angry guy - or at least, he doesn’t seem that way when he shows up at his hotel’s restaurant and asks to search for a quieter spot because his hearing is bad.
Still, the mention of the film causes Krakauer to bristle. “The writers and I tried to look at things from a fair point of view without choosing sides,” Kormákur says in his statement.
The filmmaker said he had access to a number of books written about the 1996 events on Everest, as well as “all the radio calls that went on in the Adventure Consultants camp.” (Krakauer was embedded with guide Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team on Everest, gathering material for an Outside Magazine article.)įurthermore, the director says, four advisors who were “present on the mountain during that disaster and participated in the rescue” worked on the movie. Krakauer mentions was to illustrate how helpless people were and why they might not have been able to go out and rescue people.” says Kormákur in a reply sent to The Times through his publicist. “Our intention in the tent scene that Mr. What I’m saying is, no one came to my tent and asked.” I’m not saying I could have, or would have. “Anatoli came to several tents, and not even sherpas could go out. “I never had that conversation,” Krakauer says. He’s particularly aggrieved by a scene in which his character is asked to help with the rescue by Russian guide Anatoli Boukreev but replies he cannot because he is “snow blind.” In fact, he considers the film a personal affront from Kormákur himself.
When he showed me the rough cut, I wanted to kiss him, I was so happy.”īut then there’s “Everest.” No one asked for Krakauer’s input on the story, and he says he was never approached by Michael Kelly, who played him in the film. “I only went on the set on the very last day and said, ‘Sean, if you this up, I don’t want you to say I was there,’” says Krakauer, who advised Penn in an unofficial capacity because the McCandless family was in charge of the film rights. And he was pleased with the way Sean Penn handled a 2007 adaptation of his “Into the Wild,” the tale of how outdoorsman Christopher McCandless ventured into Alaska and eventually starved there. After all, he’s in Los Angeles this week promoting “Prophet’s Prey,” which he produced and appears in as an expert because he wrote a book on the Mormon sect, 2003’s “Under the Banner of Heaven.” (A feature version of the book is currently under development with Ron Howard.) He also plays a prominent role in another documentary out this month, “Meru,” about climbers attempting to scale a 21,000-foot Himalayan mountain. Krakauer hasn’t soured on Hollywood altogether.
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What I learned from the TV movie was that dramatic films take dramatic license, and when you sign a document, you can do whatever you want with me. What do you have to lose?’” the writer, now 61, recalls. He sold the memoir’s rights to Sony Pictures just as the book was published, and the studio went on to make a poorly reviewed television movie about the tragedy that same year. The new Universal Pictures film about that fateful day, directed by Baltasar Kormákur, is not based on Krakauer’s book. “Into Thin Air,” of course, is the 1997 bestseller Krakauer wrote about his experience on Everest, when eight climbers died after getting trapped in an unexpected storm.
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