This classic essay from Jon Krakauer is now available as an unabridged audiobook download. This article is also contained in the Traditional Krakauer collection.

From the bestselling author of Missoula and In to 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 plan for teenagers to a fantastic cave in New Mexico therefore unearthly that is used by NASA to about Fred Beckey Is Still Within the Loose better understand Mars.

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