Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer was born on April 12, 1954 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the third child out of five. When he was two he moved to Oregon where he grew up. His occupations are mountaineering and writing. He was introduced to mountaineering when he was eight by his father. When he was in college he was introduced when he to a mountaineering trip and then was invited to write about it. A year after receiving his bachelor's degree, he spent three-weeks alone in the wilderness of Alaska where he met Linda Mariam Moore, who later became his wife.        He worked as a commercial salmon fisherman and carpenter, which he later abandoned to become a full time writer. In 1996 he took one of his most famous climbs along Mount Everest. He later wrote about in Outside magazine and have won many awards for them. His articles have appeared in numerous magazine. He now lives in Seattle with his wife as an editor-at-large for Outside magazine. 
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