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An analysis of the calamity that he wrote for Outside magazine received a National Magazine Award.

Everest, but during the descent a storm engulfed the peak, taking the lives of four of the five teammates who climbed to the summit with him. In May 1996 Krakauer reached the top of Mt. In 1992 he climbed the West Face of Cerro Torre in the Patagonian Andes (a mile-high spike of granite sheathed in a carapace of frozen rime, Cerro Torre was once considered the most difficult mountain on earth.) In 1977 he traveled alone to the remote Stikine Icecap in Southeast Alaska, went three weeks without encountering another person, and climbed a new route on a graceful, intimidating peak called the Devil's Thumb.

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After graduating from Hampshire College in 1976, Krakauer divided his time between Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest, earning his living primarily as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman, spending most of his free moments in the mountains. Jon Krakauer is the author of Eiger Dreams, Into the Wild, and Into Thin Air and is editor of the Modern Library Exploration series.Д«orn in 1954, he grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where his father introduced him to mountaineering as an 8-year-old.