Kevin Fedarko

Kevin Fedarko spent 13 years as a staff writer at Time and a senior editor at Outside before turning to freelance adventure stories, primarily in the Himalayas.

In 2003, an assignment in Kashmir took him to the Siachen Glacier, one of most extreme battlefields in the history of warfare, where he became the first reporter ever to witness this obscure high-altitude conflict at 23,000 feet from both the Indian and the Pakistani front lines. Two years later, he returned to the region to profile a Polish fashion model who became the first Playboy Bunny to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In 2006, Fedarko's coverage of Greg Mortenson, a former mountain climber who constructs schools for Moslem girls in remote parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan, was featured in Three Cups of Tea. Last year, Fedarko served as Mortenson's ghost-writer for Stones Into Schools, the sequel to Three Cups of Tea, which debuted as a number two hardcover bestseller.

A native of Pittsburgh and a graduate of Columbia and Oxford, Fedarko lives in the mountains of northern New Mexico and spends a portion of each summer working as a river guide in the Grand Canyon, which is the venue for his next book.