Jon Krakauer information

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;...

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...

Following the disaster, several survivors wrote memoirs. Journalist Jon Krakauer, on assignment from Outside magazine and on the Adventure Consultants...

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:...

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...

Peter Hessler and Jon Krakauer for financial mismanagement of his charity, for "dodging accountability" and for writing a book Krakauer described as "riddled...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

response to Krakauer's article". Outsideonline.com. Archived from the original on September 19, 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-05. Krakauer, Jon; Into Thin Air...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

He survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which was covered in Jon Krakauer's book Into Thin Air (1997), its film adaptation Into Thin Air: Death...

wars with better data, clear objectives, and achievable goals. Writes Jon Krakauer: ... the sense of urgency attached to the mission came from little more...

raised questions about the commercialisation of Everest. Journalist Jon Krakauer, on assignment from Outside magazine, was a member of one of the affected...