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

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Jon Krakauer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 12
Explorer
Journalist
Mountaineer
Writer
Brookline
Massachusetts
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