Jon Krakauer Author Biography

Jon Krakauer was born in 1954, and he grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where he was introduced to mountaineering when he was only 8-years old. After college he spent most of he free time in the mountains. in 1997 he traveled by himself to the Stikine Icecap in Southeast Alaska, and went three weeks without seeing another person. He has climbed an intimidating peak called the Devils Thumb, the West Face of Cerro Torre in the Patagonian Andes, and even Mt. Everest. His tragic descent of Everest became a cook called Into Thin Air, and it became a #1 New York Times bestseller. This has lead Krakauer to do more articles and write more books.

Katie's "Intro to Into the Wild" English Project

The book that I'm going to be reading soon is Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer. This book is about the two-year wilderness trip Christopher McCandless took from 1990 through 1992. The book will describe the life McCandlss had while trekking through Alaska. We will go through the way he was able to live for 119 days in the wilderness with barely anything. We will also learn about the way people think he died. I'm very excited to read this book after I read the summary learning what it was about. I looking forward to learning about his survival, and how he made out there on his own for how long he did.