About the Book: Classic Krakauer : Essays On Wilderness and Risk
Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping
essays show why Jon Krakauers is considered a standard-bearer of modern
journalism. His pieces take us from a horrifying avalanche on Mount Everest to a
volcano poised to obliterate a big chunk of Seattle; from a wilderness
teen-therapy program run by apparent sadistic to an otherworldly cave in New
Mexico, studied by NASA to better understand Mars; from the notebook of one Fred
beckey, who catalogued the greatest unclimbed mountaineering routes on the
planet, to the last days of legendary surfer mark foo. Bringing