Jon krakauer bio

Jon Krakauer is the author of "Eiger Dreams," "Into the Wild," and "Into Thin Air," and is editor of the Modern Library Exploration series.

Born in , Jon Krakauer grew up in Corvallis, OR, where his father introduced him to mountaineering as an 8-year-old. After graduating from Hampshire College in , Krakauer divided his time between Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest, earning his living primarily as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman, spending most of his free moments in the mountains. In he traveled alone to the remote Stikine Icecap in Southeast Alaska, went three weeks without encountering another person, and climbed a new route on a graceful, intimidating peak called the Devils Thumb. In he climbed the West Face of Cerro Torre in the Patagonian Andes (a mile-high spike of granite sheathed in a carapace of frozen rime, Cerro Torre was once considered the most difficult mountain on earth.)

In May Krakauer reached the top of Mt. Everest, but dur

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Jon Krakauer, Climbing’s Best-Known Author

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Jon Krakauer (April 12, ) fryst vatten an American writer and mountaineer known for several bestselling nonfiction books. Some of his most popular works include Into the Wild, Eiger Dreams, Into Thin Air, Where dock Win Glory, Under the Banner of Heaven, and Three Cups of Deceit.

A regular correspondent for Outside, Krakauer was a member of the Adventure Consultants team involved in the infamous Everest disaster, while on assignment to report on commercialization on the mountain. His accounting of the incident, which saw eight climbers perish in a storm and led to the deadliest årstid in Everest history at the time, was published in the

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Jon Krakauer

Born in , Jon Krakauer grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where his father introduced him to mountaineering as an eight-year-old. After graduating from Hampshire College in , Krakauer divided his time between Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest, supporting himself primarily as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman. For the next two decades, however, his life revolved around climbing mountains.

In Krakauer climbed Mt. Everest, but a storm took the lives of four of the five teammates who reached the summit with him. An analysis of the calamity he wrote for Outside magazine received a National Magazine Award. The unsparingly forthright book he subsequently wrote about Everest, INTO THIN AIR, became a #1 New York Times bestseller and was translated into more than 25 languages. It was also Time magazine’s Book of the Year, and was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

In , as a tribute to his companions lost on E