Jon Krakauer: into The Wild

In Cut Bank Mt, McCandless met Wayne Westerberg who later came to be one of McCandless’s closest friends after he provided him with work multiple times in South Dakota during the two years of his travels. McCandless also befriended a rubber tramp couple, Jan Burres and Bob, who offered Chris a ride and food when he was on Highway 101 in Northern California. While asking for a ride from Salton City, CA, to Grand Junction, CO; he met Ronald Franz, an eighty-year-old who developed some affection towards Chris after spending time together. McCandless stayed in touch with them by sending them postcards and letters as he advanced on his travels; in those writings, he told them how he felt during that adventure. McCandless made a notable impact in their lives, and after the authorities reported the death of someone that died of starvation in Alaska, they all reached out to notify them about their friend Alex who remained in Alaska months prior.

Jon Krakauer is well-known by the American public; he’s a writer, humanitarian, and mountaineer, whose writing is based on narrative nonfiction that outlines life in the outdoors. As most of us know, he wrote the book Into the Wild, and Jon Krakauer was adequate to deliver McCandless’s story because he relates to the enjoyment and desire for the outdoors. Additional works of Jon Krakauer consist of: Into Thin Air, Under the Banner of Heaven, Iceland, Eiger Dreams, etc. Jon Krakauer was born on April 12, 1954, in Massachusetts but spent most of his life in Corvallis, Oregon. His parents are Lewis Krakauer and Linda Moore; his father was a physician and his mother worked as an art teacher, and by the age of eight, his father had introduced him to mount climbing. During his teens he didn’t have a strong relationship with his father, Lewis wanted Jon to attend Harvard Medical School, though, he ended up attending Hampshire College and obtaining a degree in environmental studies in 1976. He subsequently became a carpenter and a climbing tramp, and in 1996 he departed to Mt.Everest with a team of five members. Members were killed by a storm struck that they met along their way which resulted in Jon Krakauer and one other member on being the only ones from the group to descend from the summit. In 1977, he attempted surmounting Devil’s Thumb, but the weather made it far more challenging for him, he later wrote an article that described his experienced which appeared in the Magazine Mountain. In 1990, Jon published his first book, Eiger Dreams, which incorporated some of his more prior articles. In 1997, he published Into Thin Air; it received praising responses from the readers due to his form of writing that brought nature and adventure alive. In 1996, he obtained to stay on the New York Times bestseller list for 2 consecutive years, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, obtained an Academy Award in Literature in 1999, etc.