Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing.
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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.”