Jon Krakauer
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Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books - Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - as well as numerous magazine articles.
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Early on a difficult climb, especially a difficult solo climb, you constantly feel the abyss pulling at your back.
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I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion.
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Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books - Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman - as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest, which would become the subject of Into Thin Air.
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