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	Jon Krakauer
		In May 1996 Krakauer reached the top of Mt. 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 1999 Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters-a prestigious award intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment." According to the Academy's citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer.
		Krakauer's latest book, which he has spent the last four years researching and writing, is UNDER THE BANNER OF HEAVEN: A STORY OF VIOLENT FAITH, published by Doubleday in July 2003.
	www.randomhouse.com /features/krakauer/author.html (634 words)

	Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer ISBN 0385486804
		Krakauer recounts similar exploits by other adventurers and his own youthful attempt to climb the Devil's Thumb on Alaska's Stikine Ice Cap, but the reader is never far from that lonely bus in the frozen north where Chris McCandless spent the last four months of his young life.
		Krakauer needs his readers to be as excited as he is about his subject, and to be willing to follow him and his sometimes schizophrenic and recursive style of writing.
		Krakauer attempts to salvage the good name of Chris, primarily because he saw much of his subject's characteristics in himself as a young man. The renunciation of a comfortable, secure environment for the aesthetic, ascetic, and the existential does not make sense to some.
	www.cheapesttextbooks.com /review-Into-the-Wild-Jon-Krakauer-0385486804.html (1559 words)

	Jon Krakauer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), is an American non-fiction author and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing.
		Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts but was raised in Corvallis, Oregon from the age of two, as the third of five children.
		Krakauer also recounts the story of Everett Ruess, a young artist and wanderer who disappeared in the Utah desert in 1934 at age 20.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jon_Krakauer (1053 words)

	Amazon.de: Under the Banner of Heaven: English Books: Jon Krakauer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Author Jon Krakauer expertly jumps from the immediate horror of the Lafferty boys to the context of Mormonism and the wider questions of religious violence.
		Krakauer introduces us to red necks with more than 30 "wives"--many who were "married" in their early teens.
		Krakauer's accounts of the actual murders are graphic and disturbing, but such detail makes the brothers' claim of divine instruction all the more horrifying.
	www.amazon.de /Under-Banner-Heaven-Jon-Krakauer/dp/1400032806 (963 words)

	Amazon.de: Into the Wild.: English Books: Jon Krakauer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
		The book &bdquo;Into the wild" by Jon Krakauer tells the story of a selfish weirdo, who leaves his live and his family behind to go on a trip through the wilderness of Alaska, but there he does not find the good life he expected but a mysterious death (that's what is said in the blurb).
		Jon Krakauer wants to find out why McCandless, who could have led a modern life in civilisation, turned his back on society and disappeared into the wild without proper gear and finally lost his way.
	www.amazon.de /Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0330351699 (1621 words)

	Jon Krakauer
		Jon Krakauer was commissioned by Outside magazine in 1996 to investigate the controversial commercialization of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest (Magnuson 1998).
		Jon was a moderately fit, middle-aged journalist with a fair amount of climbing experience under his belt.
		Krakauer explained in an interview with People magazine that he was able to identify with McCandless's obsession with risk taking in the wilderness: "I think that to a great degree, in telling Chris's story, I was telling my own" (1996).
	www.angelfire.com /journal/worldtour99/krakauer.html (1222 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Jon Krakauer
		Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996.
		As he turned to begin the perilous descent from 29,028 feet (roughly the cruising altitude of an Airbus jetliner), twenty other climbers were still pushing doggedly to the top, unaware that the sky had begun to roil with clouds....
		Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/JonKrakauereBooks.htm (478 words)

	Amazon.com: Into the Wild: Books: Jon Krakauer
		Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself...
		Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father.
		In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods.
	www.amazon.com /Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0385486804 (581 words)

	Amazon.fr : Into the Wild: Livres en anglais: Jon Krakauer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself...
		Krakauer also draws parallels to his own reckless youthful exploit in 1977 when he climbed Devils Thumb, a mountain on the Alaska-British Columbia border, partly as a symbolic act of rebellion against his autocratic father.
		In a moving narrative, Krakauer probes the mystery of McCandless's death, which he attributes to logistical blunders and to accidental poisoning from eating toxic seed pods.
	www.amazon.fr /Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0385486804 (566 words)

	EverestHistory.com: Jon Krakauer
		Jon wrote an analysis of the events on Everest for Outside magazine, earning him the 1996 National Magazine Award for Reporting.
		Jon continues to climb despite having lived through the Everest experience; however he no longer climbs above 24,000ft and has no plans to ever return to Everest.
		Aside from climbing and writing, Jon also enjoys snowboarding and reading and spending time with his wife, who shares his passion for the outdoors.
	www.everesthistory.com /climbers/jonkrakauer.htm (320 words)

	Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer: read review
		Krakauer was one of the few people to "summit" Mt. Everest on May 10, 1996 and to survive it.
		Krakauer does a laudable job of describing the nature of climbing and of this mountain in particular, bringing us up to date on the commercialization of the world's highest mountain.
		Jon Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts but was raised in Corallis, Oregon from the age of two.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /adventure/krakauer.htm (398 words)

	Amazon.ca: Under the Banner of Heaven: Books: Jon Krakauer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Krakauer wisely eschews character voices and instead narrates the details of the crime and the history of the Mormon church in a no-nonsense fashion.
		Krakauer examines the murders of Brenda and Erica Lafferty by Ron and Dan Lafferty in an attempt to understand the history and theology of Mormonism.
		Jon Krakauer is a superb writer who has taken a controversial subject and not only explained it objectively, but made it entertaining as well.
	www.amazon.ca /Under-Banner-Heaven-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0375432213 (2251 words)

	Doing Violence to Journalistic Integrity - FARMS Review
		Krakauer is fascinated by people who are on the edge physically and emotionally, those who push the limits to the extreme.
		Krakauer demonstrates a further lack of knowledge when he discusses the letter Brigham Young sent to southern Utah Mormons telling them not to attack members of the Baker-Fancher party and, instead, to see to their safety until they were out of Utah Territory.
		Krakauer, on his part, appears to have read Quinn's book and either ignored the extensive endnotes on this matter or chose not to mention the serious lack of facts supporting Quinn's assertion.
	farms.byu.edu /display.php?table=review&id=530 (8479 words)

	chapters.indigo.ca: Into the Wild: Jon Krakauer: Books
		Krakauer brings McCandless''s uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality.
		Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless''s short life.
		Mountain climber and writer Jon Krakauer was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1954.
	www.chapters.indigo.ca /books/Into-the-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/9780385486804-item.html (1184 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Jon Krakauer
		With the demise of McCandless already revealed, Krakauer concentrates on the forces that drove the devotee of Thoreau, Tolstoy and Jack London to the icy environs of Alaska and, ultimately, to his death.
		Krakauer succeeds in capturing McCandless' unique personality even as he establishes links between his subject and a loose fraternity of adventurers who also took to the wild in search of meaning and identity.
		Krakauer's own foolhardy, yet determined, attempts to climb "an intrusion of diorite mountain called the Devils Thumb" in Alaska during his youth sheds still further light on McCandless.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.15.96/krakauer-9607.html (923 words)

	Guides from the 1996 Everest Tragedy Exchange Their Views of the Deadly Climb in an Open Forum on The Mountain Zone
		Krakauer raised a question about my climbing without oxygen and suggested that perhaps my effectiveness was compromised by that decision.
		Krakauer raised a question about how I was dressed on summit day, suggesting I was not adequately protected from the elements.
		Krakauer stated that a number of seemingly minor things omitted by us contributed to the disaster that occurred on the American and New Zealand Everest expeditions on May 10, 1996.
	classic.mountainzone.com /climbing/fischer/letters.html (3975 words)

	"Aria Sottile" - Il libro di Jon Krakauer
		Sono arrivato alla lettura del libro di Krakauer, non prima di altri importanti libri sull'argomento: "Lo Sherpa" di Tenzin Norgay, "Ad un soffio dalla fine" di Beck Weathers, che narrano, ciascuno a modo suo gli eventi della tragica stagione alpinistica del 1996 sull'Everest.
		Krakauer che commenta Bukreev, Simone Moro che attacca Krakauer, i parenti dei defunti contro Krakauer, Krakauer contro se stesso divorato da enormi sensi di colpa, il giornalismo contro l'alpinismo, Maria Coffey contro l'uno e contro l'altro, Tenzin Norgay che disperatamente tenta di difendere il lavoro incessante degli sherpa,...
		Aria Sottile perchè Jon Krakauer ha racchiuso in questo titolo magistrale molto più di quanto non ci sia nell'intero testo.
	www.ariasottile.net /index.asp?pro=Aria (525 words)

	Outside Online Guests: Jon Krakauer: Into the Wild \| Outside Online
		The following audio is from Jon Krakauer's interview with host Terry Gross on "Fresh Air," which is distributed by National Public Radio and produced by WHYY FM in Philadelphia.
		His innocent mistakes turned out to be pivotal and irreversible, his name became the stuff of tabloid headlines, and his bewildered family was left clutching the shards of a fierce and painful love.
		Outside, Jon Krakauer remained haunted by the particulars of McCandless' starvation and by unsettling parallels between the boy's life and his own.
	outside.away.com /disc/guest/krakauer/bookintro.html (1231 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Into the Wild: Books: Jon Krakauer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Noted outdoor writer and mountaineer Jon Krakauer tackles that question in his reporting on Chris McCandless, whose emaciated body was found in an abandoned bus in the Alaskan wilderness in 1992.
		Krakauer, whose own adventures have taken him to the perilous heights of Everest, provides some answers by exploring the pull the outdoors, seductive yet often dangerous, has had on his own life.
		Krakauer investigates this young man's short life in an attempt to explain why someone who has everything going for him would have chosen this lifestyle, only to end up dead in one of the most remote, rugged areas of the Alaskan wilderness.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Into-Wild-Jon-Krakauer/dp/0330351699 (1442 words)

	Jon Krakauer
		Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits.
		Krakauer takes readers inside isolated communities in the American West, Canada, and Mexico, where some forty-thousand Mormon Fundamentalists believe the mainstream Mormon Church went unforgivably astray when it renounced polygamy.
		The result is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior.
	www.jonkrakauer.com (240 words)

	Climb Mount Everest
		When Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon of May 10, 1996, he hadn't slept in fifty seven hours and was reeling from the brain-altering affects of oxygen depletion.
		Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people--including himself--to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concerns of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to such risk, hardship, and expense.
		Written with emotional clarity and supported by his unimpeachable reporting, Krakauer's frank eyewitness account of what happened on the roof of the world is a singular achievement.
	www.geocities.com /Yosemite/Trails/3536/everest.html (640 words)

	Simply Audiobooks - Jon Krakauer Bio
		In May 1996 Krakauer reached the top of Mt. 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 1999 Krakauer received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters--a prestigious award intended "to honor writers of exceptional accomplishment." According to the Academy's citation, "Krakauer combines the tenacity and courage of the finest tradition of investigative journalism with the stylish subtlety and profound insight of the born writer.
		Krakauer's latest book, which he has spent the last four years researching and writing, is Under The Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, published by Doubleday in July 2003.
	www.simplyaudiobooks.com /audio-books-author-bio/Jon+Krakauer/378 (680 words)

	Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer: read review
		Krakauer was one of the few people to "summit" Mt. Everest on May 10, 1996 and to survive it.
		Krakauer does a laudable job of describing the nature of climbing and of this mountain in particular, bringing us up to date on the commercialization of the world's highest mountain.
		Jon Krakauer is an award-winning journalist who has been published in twenty-five languages around the world.
	mostlyfiction.com /adventure/krakauer.htm (308 words)

	Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild Reviews at Shopping.com
		Krakauer puts a human face on the tabloid headline and it becomes a tale that’s alternately harrowing, sad and mystifying.
		As Krakauer writes, McCandless invented “an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience.” He also renamed himself as Alexander Supertramp, “master of his own destiny.”
		Krakauer calls his death “a terrible accident” that was not, by all appearances, an eco-suicide but a series of wrong choices.
	www.shopping.com /xPR-Into_the_Wild_by_Jon_Krakauer~RD-973440 (977 words)

	The New Humanities Reader - Link-O-Mat - Jon Krakauer
		Retracing McCandless's journey, Krakauer meditates not only on what it means to be a man at the end of the twentieth century but also, more generally, on the place of the natural world in contemporary society.
		These are the questions that animate Krakauer's writing; they are also the questions that he continues to try to answer for himself.
		The Letters to Outside Magazine that followed Krakauer's initial article about Chris McCandless, "Death of an Innocent" record a wide range of responses to the article and to the events leading up to McCandless' death.
	wp.rutgers.edu /courses/101/link_o_mat/krakauer.html (822 words)

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