Jon Krakauer was born the third of five children in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was raised in Oregon since he was two years old. He went to Corvallis High School and played tennis there until he graduated in 1972. Then, he went to Hampshire College to later get his degree in Environmental Studies in 1976. Krakauer married Linda Moore in 1980 and lived in Seattle, Washington until the release of his bok Into Thin Air, when they moved to Boulder, Colorado. He has accomplished many things such as his numerous books and his well-known climb of Mt. Everest known as the 1996 Everest Disaster where 15 people died.
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