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Jon Krakauer - Mountaineering

Jon Krakauer - Mountaineering: Encyclopedia II - Jon Krakauer - Mountaineering

In 1974, he was part of a group of seven friends pioneering peaks in the Arrigetch Peaks of the Brooks Range in Alaska and was invited by American Alpine Journal to write about those experiences. Though he neither expected nor received a fee, he was excited when the Journal published his article. One year after graduating from college, he pioneered climbing the Devil's Thumb in the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska, an experience he described in Eiger Dreams and Into the Wild. He is noted for climbing the west face of Cerro Torre in the Andes of Argentine Patagonia in 1992, then considered on ...

Jon Krakauer: Encyclopedia II - Jon Krakauer - Mountaineering

Jon Krakauer - Mountaineering

In 1974, he was part of a group of seven friends pioneering peaks in the Arrigetch Peaks of the Brooks Range in Alaska and was invited by American Alpine Journal to write about those experiences. Though he neither expected nor received a fee, he was excited when the Journal published his article. One year after graduating from college, he pioneered climbing the Devil's Thumb in the Stikine Icecap region of Alaska, an experience he described in Eiger Dreams and Into the Wild.

He is noted for climbing the west face of Cerro Torre in the Andes of Argentine Patagonia in 1992, then considered one of the hardest technical climbs in the world.