Jon Krakauer Biography

Jon Krakauer was born in Massachusetts on April 12th, 1954. However, when he was two years old, his family moved to Oregon, where he spent most of his childhood. he is the third of five children. He was a really athletic child, and when he was eight years old his father introduced him to mountaineering. he graduated from high school in 1972, and in 1976 he received his bachelor's degree. In 1977, he spent three weeks alone in the wilderness of the Stikine region of Alaska. He met Linda Mariam Moore, who he eventually married in 1980. In 1983, Krakauer quit his jobs to be able to write full time. In 1996, he teamed with several other team members and together they went on a guided ascent of Mount Everest. However, a terrible ice storm came and took four of his teammates,and Krakauer shared his story with Outside magazine in a article that he wrote. Krakauer's work has appeared in many magazines such as National Geographic and Times. He is currently an official editor of Outside magazine, and lives in Seattle with his wife.