존 크라카우어

소개

존 크라카우어(Jon Krakauer, 1954년 4월 12일 ~ )는 미국의 산악인이자 작가이다. 《그들은 왜 오늘도 산과 싸우는가》, 《인투 더 와일드》, 《희박한 공기 속으로》 등의 작품으로 잘 알려져 있다.

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.