Hi all mountain aficionados

Since " Into thin Air " Krakauer is one of favorite mountaineering writer."In to The Wild. Good writing. However it does occasionally remind me of good ol Jack London.

Good climbing. Carry on...


Only one remark: Please use the metric system - in brackets like IHT or the New York Times. "His backpack weighed 40 pounds!"- I don't have a clue. I have to stop reading. Connect my internet and convert to kilograms. It cheeses me off!


New York Times have gone metric inch by inch (in brackets)

Why can't you go metric. You can't change Jon Krakauer according to him the peaks are in in feet!

But the editor of the publishing house should edit the text and change it in to kilograms, meters, accordingly


Europe is metric. Asia is going metric!

I live in South East Asia - Thailand. We are using the metric system we use the metric phone time 15.00 hours not 3 PM.

Keep climbing.


Cheers John

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