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    Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling non-fiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air;...
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  • up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was later made into a full-length feature film. After graduating...
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  • Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith is a nonfiction book by author Jon Krakauer, first published in July 2003. He investigated and juxtaposed two histories:...
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  • Disaster is a 1997 bestselling nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details Krakauer's experience in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight...
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    Following the disaster, several survivors wrote memoirs. Journalist Jon Krakauer, on assignment from Outside magazine and on the Adventure Consultants...
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  • Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article by Krakauer on Chris McCandless titled "Death of an Innocent"...
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  • Justice System in a College Town is a 2015 nonfiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It details the stories of several female students raped in Missoula...
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  • Thin Air: Death on Everest is a 1997 disaster television film based on Jon Krakauer's memoir Into Thin Air (1997). The film, directed by Robert Markowitz...
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  • e-book written by Jon Krakauer about Three Cups of Tea (2007) and Stones into Schools (2009) author Greg Mortenson. In it, Krakauer disputes Mortenson's...
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    Peter Hessler and Jon Krakauer for financial mismanagement of his charity, for "dodging accountability" and for writing a book Krakauer described as "riddled...
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  • Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, a 2009 book written by Jon Krakauer, is a biography of Pat Tillman, an American football player who left...
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  • clients died. A best-selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air, and the expedition has been dramatised in the 2015...
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  • narrative of Boukreev's logbook. The book is also partially a response to Jon Krakauer's account of the same 1996 Everest climb in his book Into Thin Air (1997)...
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  • created by Dustin Lance Black, based on the 2003 non-fiction book by Jon Krakauer. It premiered on April 28, 2022, on FX on Hulu. Andrew Garfield and Gil...
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  • adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless ("Alexander Supertramp")...
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  • covered in numerous magazine articles and interviews with other survivors. Jon Krakauer, who was sent to climb with another expedition, and to report on the...
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  • complete her final Seven Summits ascent; and Outside magazine journalist Jon Krakauer. Helen Wilton manages Rob's base camp. A month earlier in New Zealand...
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  • and Mountains is a non-fiction collection of articles and essays by Jon Krakauer on mountaineering and rock climbing. Eleven out of twelve of the chapters...
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    response to Krakauer's article". Outsideonline.com. Archived from the original on September 19, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-05. Krakauer, Jon; Into Thin Air...
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    including game show host Jack Barry in Quiz Show (1994), mountaineer Jon Krakauer in Into Thin Air: Death on Everest on ABC (1997), sportscaster Mel Allen...
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  • trail. The bus was first brought to the public's attention by writer Jon Krakauer in an Outside magazine article; a book in 1996 and a film in 2007 followed...
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    from North. Indian Publishers Distributors. ISBN 978-81-7341-276-9. Krakauer, Jon (1997). Into Thin Air. Anchor Books. ISBN 978-03-8549-208-9. Saso, Hiroo...
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  • In the 1997 book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer—a personal account of the events of the 1996 Everest disaster—Krakauer states: "Walter Mittys with Everest...
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  • 2015 movie Everest. List of people who died climbing Mount Everest Krakauer, Jon (1997). Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster...
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    Krakauer, Jon (2009). Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman. Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-385-52226-7. Krakauer, Jon (2009)...
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    moment. — Jon Krakauer, Where Men Win Glory. NY: Bloomsbury, p. 205. Although there may well be a longstanding history of such bias, Krakauer claims "the...
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    Rakekniven Peak, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, FA with Alex Lowe and Jon Krakauer. Featured in the cover article of the February 1998 National Geographic...
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  • critiques and challenges of the book and Mortenson surfaced. Author Jon Krakauer alleged that a number of Mortenson's claims in the book are fictitious...
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    is also a dispute whether the three had actually reached the summit. Jon Krakauer claims that the climbers were at 8,700 m (28,550 ft), roughly 150 m (500 ft)...
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  • wives and "about 60 children," including 33 sons. According to author Jon Krakauer, who chronicles the FLDS Church and the Jeffs family in Under the Banner...
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