![]() ![]() His 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. His father introduced the young Krakauer to mountaineering at the age of eight. ![]() His father was Jewish and his mother was a Unitarian of Scandinavian descent. Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, as the third of five children of Carol Ann (née Jones) and Lewis Joseph Krakauer. 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. ![]() He is the author of bestselling 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. Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. ![]()
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