Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, best known for nonfiction about the outdoors and climbing. His books include Into the Wild, which follows Christopher McCandless's journey into the Alaskan wilderness, and Into Thin Air, an account of the 1996 Mount Everest expedition he joined. In 2003 he moved into investigative journalism, and he has also written Under the Banner of Heaven and Where Men Win Glory, a biography of Pat Tillman.