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Name: Jon Krakauer
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Biography of Jon Krakauer
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"Straddling the top of the world, one foot in Tibet and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen mask, hunched a shoulder against the wind, and stared absently at the vast sweep of earth below. I understood on some dim, detached level that...


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Jon Krakauer (born April 12 , 1954 ) is an American journalist, author of non-fiction books, and mountaineer. In 1999 he received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters . Although he is perhaps best known as an...


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Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing...


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U.S. climber's body found in China
7/9/2007: 265 words, approx. 1 pages
The body of a top female mountain climber who has been missing for seven months was found on a remote peak in northern China, her family said Monday.Christine Boskoff and her climbing partner failed to return home as planned Dec. 4. The body of her...
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Sean Penn dismayed by `Wild' discovery
9/20/2007: 287 words, approx. 1 pages
Sean Penn made a disheartening discovery on his latest trip to Alaska this summer: Someone had walked off with a pair of boots that had sat in an old bus in the wilderness for almost 15 years.The bus had become something of a shrine for...
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Apatow, Cody, Penn among WGA script nods
1/11/2008: 343 words, approx. 1 pages
While the Writers Guild of America continues its strike, throwing much of awards season into question, it still has some awards of its own to hand out.Among the WGA nominees for best original screenplay are stripper-turned-scribe Diablo Cody for the teen pregnancy comedy "Juno" and...
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Second tragedy likely for climb company
12/28/2006: 670 words, approx. 2 pages
Jon Krakauer's best-selling book "Into Thin Air" chronicles a disastrous climb up Mount Everest that killed the much-loved owner of adventure company Mountain Madness.Employees at the company were hoping Wednesday that a climb in China hasn't ended with another tragedy within the company, and that...
 


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