Krakauer was born in Massachusetts in 1954, but grew up in Oregon. He had four siblings and was a very athletic boy. He went to Hampshire College in Massachusetts and majored in Environmental Science. During this time, he was a part of a group of mountaineers climbed the Arrigetch Peaks. He was invited by the American Alpine Journal to write about what he had experiences. In 1976, Krakauer received his bachelor's degree. In 1977 he met his wife who he then married in 1980. In 1983, he started writing full time. He teemed with mountaineers and embarked on a journey in 1996, his most famous climb to Mount Everest. Four teammates died becausew of an ice storm, and Krakauer wrote about his experience in a magazine, receiving a National Magazine Award. In 1997, he received the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism. Currently, he is an editor for the Outside magazine and lives with his wife in Seattle.
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