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

From your bestselling author of Missoula and Into the Wild: an array of the singular investigative journalism that produced Krakauer famous, covering topics from avalanches on Mt. Everest to a volcano in Washington state; from a wilderness therapy system for teenagers to an extraordinary cave in New Mexico so unearthly that’s utilized by NASA to approximately Tag Foo’s Last Ride better understand Mars.

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