Glorious Incorporated by Steven Neil Moore

In November 1983, he was able to give up his part-time work as a fisherman and carpenter to become a full-time writer.

Much of Krakauer's popularity as a writer came from his work as a journalist for Outside. Krakauer has publicly criticized the commercialization of Mount Everest. This has since been exceeded by the sixteen deaths in the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche, and the 2015 earthquake avalanche disaster in which twenty-two people were killed. By the end of the 1996 climbing season, fifteen people had died on the mountain, making it the deadliest single year in Everest history to that point. Ī candid recollection of the event was published in Outside magazine and, later, in the book Into Thin Air. Krakauer reached the peak and returned to camp, but four of his teammates (including group leader Rob Hall) died while making their descent in the storm. His group was one of those caught in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which a violent storm trapped a number of climbers high on the slopes of the mountain. In 1996, Krakauer took part in a guided ascent of Mount Everest. : 135–153 In 1992, he made his way to Cerro Torre in the Andes of Patagonia-a sheer granite peak considered to be one of the most difficult technical climbs in the world. Mountaineering Īfter graduating from college, Krakauer spent three weeks alone in the wilderness of the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska and climbed a new route on the Devils Thumb, an experience he described in Eiger Dreams and in Into the Wild. They lived in Seattle, Washington, but moved to Boulder, Colorado, after the release of Krakauer's book Into Thin Air. In 1977, he met former climber Linda Mariam Moore, and they married in 1980. He went on to study at Hampshire College in Massachusetts, where in 1976 he received his degree in environmental studies.

Krakauer wrote that this was his father's view of 'life's one sure path to meaningful success and lasting happiness.' He competed in tennis at Corvallis High School, and graduated in 1972. 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.

Glorious Incorporated by Steven Neil Moore