This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This essay is also included in the Classic Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling writer of Missoula and Into the Wild: a selection of the singular investigative journalism that made Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a volcano in Washington condition; from a wilderness therapy program for teenagers to a fantastic cave in New Mexico therefore unearthly that is used by NASA to on the subject of After the Fall better understand Mars.

In these fascinating essays–first posted in the pages of The New Yorker, Outside, Smithsonian, and Rolling Stone, among others–Jon Krakauer displays why he is considered one of the finest investigative journalists of our time. The articles, gathered together here for the first time, take us from an otherworldly cave in New Mexico towards the heights of Mt. Everest; through the base of the volcano Mt. Ranier to the Gates from the Arctic in Alaska; in the notebook of one Fred Becky, that has catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on earth, towards the last times of famous surfer Mark Foo. These incredible content articles are unified by the author’s enthusiasm for nature and unrelenting search for truth.