Into the Life of Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer was born in 1954 in Corvallis, Oregon. Throughout his childhood Jon was connected to nature and mountaineering. Jon attended Hampshire College, and later worked as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman. He continued his love for mountaineering through his adult years. In 1996 he climbed to the top of Mount Everest and nearly lost his life. Krakauer turned this journey and near death experience into a best-selling book, Into Thin Air. Jon kept his writing alive and wrote the novel Into the Wild. He has written several other books, but Into the Wild and Into Thin Air being the most famous. Many of his works were published in Outside, GEO, Architectural Digest, Rolling Stone, TIME, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and National Geographic. In 1999 he received an Academy Award in Literature. Jon Krakauer is still writing today and has many achievements to be proud of.


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