Much of the food he put on the table came from hunting—despite the fact that he was uncomfortable killing animals. My dad cried every time he shot a deer, Billie says, 'but we had to eat, so he did it.
Jon Krakauer
Much of the food he put on the table came from hunting—despite the fact that he was uncomfortable killing animals. My dad cried every time he shot a deer, Billie says, 'but we had to eat, so he did it.
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling nonfiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.
