Jon Krakauer

And just the technical feat that they were able to achieve some of these shots is pretty impressive.

Have you ever read John Krakauer's Into Thin Air? No.

Okay, so John Krakauer is kind of a, I don't know what you would consider him.

He's an adventure rider.

He is a mountain climber.

wanted to write this book, what other inspiration went into it?

Well, you know, I always liked reading, you know, those kinds of stories and I tried writing when I was younger and I took creative writing classes in college and I would write something right before the day before it was due and I'd turn it in and maybe I'd do a little editing, like, you know, fix my grammar mistakes and that's what I thought editing was and I'd turn it in and it really wasn't blowing the doors off of anybody who read it, you know, and I thought, well, I'm not a great writer then, I guess, and then Actually, on my first trip to Alaska, when we were climbing, we stayed in camp for a couple nights next to the North Face team and John Krakauer was there.

Oh, wow.

And we were in this big group talking and writing came up and he said, people think I'm a great writer, but I'm not a great writer, but I am a great editor.

You did some weird stuff.

And there were some nefarious things, and John Krakauer wrote a book about it called Under the Banner of Heaven, you guys should read it, uh, and exposed some things, and then you guys went to court.

There was some litigation.

Um, some money was involved.

The reporter, Paul Solman, talks about one particular school Hampshire College which is kind of an old and distinguished New England school.

John Krakauer, Ken Burns are just two pretty well-known writers and in Ken Burns case a documentary filmmaker who went to Hampshire College.

But it recently shut down and it talks about the effects of that shutdown on the town around it.

It's part of a PBS higher education series called Rethinking College.