Jon Krakauer

“drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders;”

— Jon Krakauer

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

— Jon Krakauer

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

— Jon Krakauer

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.

— Jon Krakauer

That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.

— Jon Krakauer

“Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.”

— Jon Krakauer

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

— Jon Krakauer

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

— Jon Krakauer

“drunk guys who may have ‘made mistakes’ nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.” Compounding”

— Jon Krakauer

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

— Jon Krakauer

The pieces I've written for 'Outside' magazine are definitely my best work, and they're virtually all about the outdoors.

— Jon Krakauer

“I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more richly and intensely.”

— Jon Krakauer

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

— Jon Krakauer

“if you have been assaulted by somebody you thought you could trust, how do you restore your sense of trust in the…

— Jon Krakauer

“We were too tired to help. Above 8,000 meters is not a place where people can afford morality”

— Jon Krakauer

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so…

— Jon Krakauer

Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our…

— Jon Krakauer

My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly…

— Jon Krakauer

There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever…

— Jon Krakauer

This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be…

— Jon Krakauer

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a…

— Jon Krakauer

The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the…

— Jon Krakauer

Straddling the top of the world, one foot in China and the other in Nepal, I cleared the ice from my oxygen…

— Jon Krakauer

At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its…

— Jon Krakauer

“In drum spre varf, Viesturs a trecut pe langa cadravele inghetate ale lui Fischer si Hall. -Jean (sotia lui Fischer) si Jan(sotia…

— Jon Krakauer

“La 18.20, Cotter l-a contactat pe Hall si i-a spus ca Jan Arnold sunase din Christchurch si astepta sa i se faca…

— Jon Krakauer

“At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its…

— Jon Krakauer

“I was irresistibly drawn to write about Latter-Day Saints not only because I already knew something about their theology, and admired much…

— Jon Krakauer

“Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name,…

— Jon Krakauer

“There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to…

— Jon Krakauer

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume…

— Jon Krakauer

“When Debbie was fourteen, she felt "impressed by the Lord" to marry Ray Blackmore, the community leader. Debbie asked her father to…

— Jon Krakauer

You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.

— Jon Krakauer

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”

— Jon Krakauer

“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.”

— Jon Krakauer

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

— Jon Krakauer

“My life was falling apart. But somehow I stuck it out.”

— Jon Krakauer

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

— Jon Krakauer

“to explore the inner country of his own soul.”

— Jon Krakauer

“He never suspected that in so doing, he was crossing his Rubicon.”

— Jon Krakauer