Jon Karakauer was born in 1954 in Corvallis, Oregon. Krakauer was taught by his father about climbing mountains when he was about 8 years old. After graduating from Hampshire College in 1976, Krakauer divided his time between Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest, earning his living as a carpenter and salmon fisherman, spending most of his free moments in the mountains. Krakauer became an avid climber climbing mountains such as the remote Stikine Icecap in Southeast Alaska, where he went three weeks without encountering another person, and climbed a new route on a peak called the Devils Thumb. In 1992 he climbed the West Face of Cerro Torre in the Patagonian Andes, which was once considered the most dangerous montain on earth.
In May 1996 Krakauer reached the top of Mt. Everest, but during the descent a storm engulfed the peak, taking the lives of four of the five teammates who climbed to the summit with him.
Jon Krakauer is now a very famous author with writing books like Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and others.
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