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Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction 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 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.
Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, as the third of five children of Carol Ann (née Jones) and Lewis Joseph Krakauer. His father was Jewish and his mother was a Unitarian, of Scandinavian descent. He was raised in Corvallis, Oregon, from the age of two. His father introduced the young Krakauer to mountaineering at the age of eight. He competed in tennis at Corvallis High School, and graduated in 1972. He went on to study at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, where in 1976 he received his degree in Environmental Studies. In 1977, he met former climber Linda Mariam Moore, and they married in 1980. They lived in Seattle, Washington, but moved to Boulder, Colorado, after the release of Krakauer's book Into Thin Air.
After graduating from college, Krakauer spent three weeks alone in the wilderness of the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska and climbed a new route on the Devils Thumb, an experience he described in Eiger Dreams and in Into the Wild. In 1992, he made his way to Cerro Torre in the Andes of Patagonia—a sheer granite peak considered to be one of the most difficult technical climbs in the world.
In 1996, Krakauer took part in a guided ascent of Mount Everest. His group was one of those caught in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which a violent storm trapped a number of climbers high on the slopes of the mountain. Krakauer reached the peak and returned to camp, but four of his teammates (including group leader Rob Hall) died while making their descent in the storm.
A candid recollection of the event was published in Outside magazine and, later, in the book Into Thin Air. By the end of the 1996 climbing season, fifteen people had died on the mountain, making it the deadliest single year in Everest history to that point. This has been exceeded by the sixteen deaths in the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche, and the 2015 earthquake avalanche disaster in which nineteen people were killed. Krakauer publicly criticized the commercialization of Mount Everest following this tragedy.
Much of Krakauer's popularity as a writer came from his work as a journalist for Outside. In November 1983, he was able to give up his part-time work as a fisherman and carpenter to become a full-time writer. In addition to his work on mountain climbing, the topics he covered as a freelance writer varied greatly; his writing has also appeared in Architectural Digest, National Geographic Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Smithsonian. Krakauer's 1992 book Eiger Dreams collects some of his articles written between 1982 and 1989.
On assignment for Outside, Krakauer wrote an article focusing on two parties during his ascent of Mt. Everest: the one he was in, led by Rob Hall, and the one led by Scott Fischer, both of whom successfully guided clients to the summit but experienced severe difficulty during the descent. The storm, and, in his estimation, irresponsible choices by guides of both parties, led to a number of deaths, including both head guides. Krakauer felt the short account did not accurately cover the event, and clarified his initial statements—especially those regarding the death of Andy Harris—in Into Thin Air, which also includes extensive interviews with fellow survivors.
In 1999, he received an Arts and Letters award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Books
Jon Krakauer - Into The Wild (read by Philip Franklin)
Jon Krakauer - Into Thin Air (read by Philip Franklin)
Jon Krakauer - Under The Banner Of Heaven (read by Jon Krakauer)
Jon Krakauer - Missoula (read by Scott Brick, Mozhan Marno)
Jon Krakauer - Where Men Win Glory (read by Scott Brick)
Jon Krakauer - Eiger Dreams (read by Philip Franklin)
Jon Krakauer - Prophet's Prey (read by Jonah Cummings)
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https://rapidgator.net/file/3991317c206782bc7db3ead57396ad38/Into_The_Wild.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/1a8f83ced4ff41cc2d856c85ef66c9b4/Into_Thin_Air.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/61e97ed22d50e7e03bcea1c16e21d5d1/Under_The_Banner_Of_Heaven.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/0a27e76823266412ccc91b55f4d4971d/Missoula.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/ba47c755b7dc0720ce374f3fc8dd38a8/Where_Men_Win_Glory.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/d9c19eb3deed66d19cc6ddd47c06f8de/Eiger_Dreams.rar.html
https://rapidgator.net/file/e016c9a894bf46706cadbc2235488354/Prophets_Prey.rar.html |
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