Krakauer sues Outside magazine over copyright

BOULDER — Boulder resident John Krakauer, who wrote the best-seller “Into Thin Air” about his trip up Mount Everest, has sued Outside Magazine after it republished online his 20-year-old article about that deadly expedition.

Krakauer filed a copyright infringement suit in November against Mariah Media Network LLC, which publishes Outside. He claims, according to a report in BusinessDen, that the magazine republished his “Into Thin Air” article on its website in September 2015, breaking the copyright agreement.

“Into Thin Air” first was published in the print edition of Outside in September…