Krakauer Claps Back

John Krakauer, author of ‘Into Thin Air’ on Medium:

In August 2024, I began to receive comments in my Instagram feed warning me that a YouTuber named Michael Tracy had been aggressively maligning my book, Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. One commenter observed that Tracy’s defamatory statements were “getting out of hand. The man really has an agenda against you, and most people just don’t question it.”
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In most of his videos about my book, Tracy seems to be trying to do what the MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon famously called “flooding the zone with shit” — spewing forth such an overwhelming torrent of misinformation that it creates lasting doubt about what’s true and what isn’t. Tracy’s videos about me include dozens of deceitful statements, and he continues to post additional misleading videos on an intermittent basis — which for all practical purposes renders any attempt to refute every spurious claim in his videos an exercise in futility.
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This is the first of what will be eight separate chapters of commentary. I intend to the post a new chapter every day or so going forward.

Get the popcorn, this is going to be good.