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If you're not a feminist, you're part of the problem.

Jon Krakauer

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

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The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.
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The desert sharpened the sweet ache of his longing, amplified it, gave shape to it in sere geology and clean slant of light.
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Most climbers aren't in fact deranged, they're just infected with a particularly virulent strain of the Human Condition.
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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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It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty.
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Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.
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There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
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Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.
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Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That's why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that's why they write symphonies.
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Sometimes my need to love hurts-- myself, my family, my cause. Is there a cure? Of course. But I refuse. Refuse to stop loving, to stop caring. To avoid those tears, that pain...To err on the side of passion is human and right and the only way I'll live.
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You should own nothing except what you can carry on your back at a dead run.
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I love being outdoors, being in the mountains and the desert, and my wife enjoys that too. That's one of the things that sustain our relationship.
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Heaven, for me, is one focused project - it's like a weird form of autism.
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When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines through you.
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I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
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I was dimly aware that I might be getting in over my head. But that only added to the scheme’s appeal. That it wouldn’t be easy was the whole point.
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That's what was great about him. He tried. Not many do.
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But now that I was finally here, standing on the summit of Mount Everest, I just couldn't summon the energy to care.
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Having stumbled upon a tolerable career, for the first time in my life I was actually living above the poverty line. My hunger to climb had been blunted, in short, by a bunch of small satisfactions that added up to something like happiness.
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