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The power and luminosity of jon krakauer s storytelling blaze through every page. The journalist and mountaineer jon krakauer, best known for his book into thin air, which details a disaster that happened in. Jon krakauer is a journalist whose work has been published in the new york times, the washington post, time, smithsonian, national geographic, rolling stone, outside, architectural digest, and other periodicals. In a compelling book that evokes the writings of thoreau, muir, and jack london, krakauer recounts the haunting and tragic mystery of 22yearold chris mccandless who disappeared in april 1992 into the alaskan wilderness in search of a raw, transcendent experience.