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Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

Jon Krakauer

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