People climb Mount Everest because it - and the money - is there. Instead, the root of the problem lies in the famous explanation George Mallory gave when asked why he wanted to climb the mountain, an explanation that still holds true, albeit with a slight amendment. As he sees it, essentially nothing ''went wrong,'' at least in terms of the Jon Krakauer was one of the survivors, and in ''Into Thin Air'' he relives the storm and its aftermath, trying to answer those questions. With more money than expertise being taken up Everest in the first place? In New Zealand by radiophone as he lay stranded in a snowstorm on the summit ridge), a barrage of questions resounded: What went wrong? Why was the approaching storm ignored? And, most emphatically, why are ''tourists'' As news spread of the nine deaths (including that of Hall, who spoke to his wife The particular descent ahead of those on the ''hill'' on May 10, 1996, resulted in the greatest loss of life in the history of mountaineering on Everest. Ith enough determination, any bloody idiot can get up this hill,'' observed Rob Hall, the leader of a commercial expedition, on his eighth tour of Mount Everest. PLUS: Jon Krakauer talks to Terry Gross about surviving the Everest disaster - a RealAudio® interview | Part 1 & Part 2 More on Jon Krakauer and Everest, from The New York Times Archives Why are tourists with more money than expertise being taken up Mount Everest?
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