20 Facts About Jon Krakauer

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Jon Krakauer was born on April 12,1954 and is an American writer and mountaineer.

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Jon Krakauer 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.

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Jon Krakauer's father was Jewish and his mother was a Unitarian of Scandinavian descent.

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Jon Krakauer's father introduced the young Krakauer to mountaineering at the age of eight.

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Jon Krakauer's father was "relentlessly competitive and ambitious in the extreme" and placed high expectations on Krakauer, wishing for his son to attend Harvard Medical School and become a doctor.

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Jon Krakauer went on to study at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, where in 1976 he received his degree in environmental studies.

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In 1996, Jon Krakauer took part in a guided ascent of Mount Everest.

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Jon Krakauer's 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.

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Jon Krakauer reached the peak and returned to camp, but four of his teammates died while making their descent in the storm.

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In 1997, Jon Krakauer expanded his September 1996 Outside article into Into Thin Air.

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Jon Krakauer has contributed royalties from this book to the Everest '96 Memorial Fund at the Boulder Community Foundation, which he founded as a tribute to his deceased climbing partners.

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Jon Krakauer denounced the movie, saying some of its details were fabricated and defamatory.

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Jon Krakauer expressed regret regarding Sony's rapid acquisition of the rights to the book.

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Jon Krakauer wrote that Boukreev descended from the summit several hours ahead of his clients, and that this was "extremely unorthodox behavior for a guide".

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Jon Krakauer noted however that, once he had descended to the top camp, Boukreev was heroic in his tireless attempts to rescue the missing climbers.

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Jon Krakauer had reached a detente with Boukreev in November 1997, but the Russian climber was killed by an avalanche only a few weeks later while climbing Annapurna.

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Jon Krakauer looks at the practice of polygamy in these offshoots and scrutinizes it in the context of the Latter Day Saints religion throughout its history.

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Jon Krakauer is a storyteller who cuts corners to make the story sound good.

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The book draws on the journals and letters of Tillman, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and research Jon Krakauer performed in Afghanistan.

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The 2016 documentary 3000 Cups of Tea by Jennifer Jordan and Jeff Rhoads claims that the accusations against Mortenson put forward by 60 Minutes and Jon Krakauer are largely untrue.