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Jon Krakauer is an American author and mountaineer.
* He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1954.
* He grew up in Corvallis, Oregon.
* His father introduced him to mountaineering at the age of eight.
* He is the author of several bestselling non-fiction books, including Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven.
* He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996.
* He has written for magazines such as National Geographic and Rolling Stone.
* He lives in Seattle, Washington.
* He is married and has two children.
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I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.
I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.
I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.
Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
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