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Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer
(born April 12, 1954) is an American
writer
and
mountaineer
, primarily known for his writings about the
outdoors
, especially mountain-climbing. 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, which became known as the
1996 Mount Everest disaster
, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.
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