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Summary Of The Author And The Mountain Climber By Jon Krakauer

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Jon Krakauer is the author and the mountain climber of this book. He was hired to write about Mount Everest, so he decided that he wanted to climb it. It turns out that this adventure would be one of the most dangerous. His guide, Rob Hall, was going to lead his group to the summit of the mountain. His group has trouble adjusting to the climate. They were getting slow and losing weight because of the high altitude. After a lot of climbing a storm started . The group got seperated, and lots of the group members start dying. There ended up being twelve deaths during this climb. Lon Krakauer witnessed all of this, and he survived. He believed that he needed to write this book to express the intensity of this event.
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