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

Through 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 system for teens to an extraordinary cave in New Mexico therefore unearthly that is utilized by NASA to approximately Loving These to Death 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’s considered among the finest investigative journalists of our time. The articles, gathered together here for the very first time, consider us from an otherworldly cave in New Mexico to the levels of Mt. Everest; in the base of the volcano Mt. Ranier to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska; through the notebook of 1 Fred Becky, that has catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on earth, towards the last times of renowned surfer Mark Foo. These incredible content articles are unified by the author’s passion for character and unrelenting search for truth.