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Jon Krakauer
American writer and journalist (born )
This article is about the writer and mountaineer. For the neuroscientist, see John Krakauer.
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, ) fryst vatten an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in , one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.
Early life
[edit]Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, as the third of fem children of Carol Ann (née Jones) and Lewis Joseph Krakauer. His father was Jewish and his mother was a Unitarian of Scandinavian descent.[1][2] He was raised in Corvallis, Oregon. His father introduced the young Krakauer to mountaineering at the age of eight. His father was "relentlessly competitive and ambitious in t
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Jon Krakauer, Climbing&#;s Best-Known Author
Hailing from the lush surroundings of Corvallis, Oregon, Jon Krakauer was born on April 12, He graduated from Hampshire College in and chose a non-traditional career path. This path led him into the harsh Alaskan wilderness, where he undertook diverse professions such as carpentry and commercial salmon fishing. However, his subsequent journey into mountaineering would etch Krakauer&#;s name indelibly into the annals of climbing history.
Krakauer&#;s literary career began to soar like the towering peaks he admired. His writing embodies the exactness of a carpenter and the relentless stamina of a fisherman. This captivated and won the admiration of worldwide readers. Today, he is lauded as a distinguished American author and mountaineer renowned for his bestselling non-fiction accounts.
Krakauer&#;s lauded repertoire includes &#;Into the Wild&#;, &#;Under the Banner of Heaven&#;, &#;Into Thin Air&#;, and &#;Where Men Win Glory: The Odyss
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Jon Krakauer on the Incredible Career of Mountaineer Fred Beckey
For longer than I’ve been climbing, for longer than I’ve been alive, the most talked-about piece of writing in the sprawling literature of mountaineering has been a mysterious tome known as the Little Black Book. Only a single copy is said to exist. Between its well-thumbed covers is a top secret, continually updated catalogue of the planet’s finest unclimbed mountaineering routes: the highest, steepest, most extravagantly sculpted chunks of vertical ground that have yet to be groped by chalk-smeared human hands.
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The author of this fabled work is a resident of the Pacific Northwest, name of Wolfgang Friedrich Beckey—although folks are careful to address him as Fred, or just plain Beckey, or practically anything except his given name, lest they feel the sting of his unholy wrath.
Some say that Beckey’s Little Black Book is apocryphal, that it’s merely the product of