Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling non-fiction 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. Provided by Wikipedia