Krakauer would eventually publish his version of these events in the bestselling book Into Thin Air (1996). In 1996, Krakauer was involved in a major mountaineering disaster at Mount Everest, in which four of his teammates died in the middle of a snowstorm. Beginning in the early 1980s, however, he began contributing articles about mountaineering and the natural world to the magazine Outside, and by the end of the decade, he was supporting himself by writing full time. During these years, Krakauer supported himself almost entirely as a fisherman and a carpenter.
As a young man, he developed a passion for mountain climbing, and throughout the 1970s he traveled to Alaska, Patagonia, and Mount Everest in search of difficult climbs.
Jon Krakauer grew up in Massachusetts, and later studied environmental science at Hampshire College.
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