Eight people died, and the disaster was covered in numerous magazine articles and interviews with other survivors. Jon Krakauer, who was sent on the climb to report on the commercialization of Everest and the increasing number of rich clients without expertise, later expanded his September 1996 Outside Magazine article into a book with the same title, Into Thin Air (1997). However, Hill and the others all had previous climbing experience. Hill rebutted negative claims in various media outlets, including an interview with Newsweek, wherein she stated, We behaved like a team at all times. Highly visible in the media before the climb, she believed she was pigeonholed as a rich New Yorker, which painted such an easy picture of a villain right there.