How Did Into Thin Air Influence Jon Krakauer's Literature

The Roots and Influences of Jon Krakauer’s Literature
“The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road” - Jon Krakauer. This statement derives from Krakauer's thoughts and takeaways from his disastrous climb up Mount Everest that completely upset Krakauer's viewpoint of his lifelong dream, to climb the tallest mountain in the world. Krakauer recounts his journey while scaling Mount Everest in his non-fictional book Into Thin Air, that supports his statement of why the climb is not a Yellow Brick Road. Jon Krakauer's countless mountaineering adventures are the foundation of most of his books, including Into Thin Air and Into the Wild. Krakauer also uses religion as a base of his book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith. Krakauer's

As a result Outside magazine asked Krakauer to write about this man(Boynton). Therefore, that is exactly what Krakauer did, he wrote an article for the magazine and then later wrote one of the best books in American Literature, Into The Wild. Later in 1996 Krakauer was inspired again, to write another one of his well known books, Into Thin Air, when he climbed Mount Everest(BookBrowse). Subsequently, in 2003 Krakauer published another book, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, where he researches the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints(Mueller). Down the road, in 2009 Krakauer released another book, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, a book a man who turned down a multi-million dollar NFL to instead fight in Afghanistan(BookBrowse). Following, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, Krakauer writes,Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town, “a stark and powerful narrative about a series of sexual assaults at the University of Montana — stories that illuminate the human drama behind the national plague of campus rape”(Krakauer.com). Since 2015 Krakauer has had no more books published and now works as an editor for the Modern

For example, Krakauer can easily describe and depict the Alaskan Wilderness, the setting of Into the Wild, because Krakauer has physically been to Alaska as an outdoorsman and knows what things are like there. To put in a nutshell, Krakauer's experiences have great influence on what wrote and why he wrote the novel Into the Wild. Similarly, Krakauer's outdoor encounters greatly influenced his writing of Into Thin Air. For the novel Into Thin Air, if Krakauer had not personally experienced climbing Mount Everest and lost over half of his team in the storm it is very likely a book similar to Into Thin Air would have never been published. Again, if Krakauer’s father was not Mormon and his child community was not Mormon it is likely that Krakauer would not have ever written his book, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith.
Jon Krakauer's childhood and his extreme outdoors man lifestyle his books Into Thin Air, Into the Wild, and Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith have an extreme connection that links both the author and the writing. Without a doubt if Krakauer did not have the life he did these three pieces of work would not